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Can’t fork a semiconductor? Hold my beer… Introducing the Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform

H.2214 | Day 1 | 17:20 - 17:55 | Speakers: Cairo Caplan, Charley Mann

Can’t fork a semiconductor? Hold my beer… Introducing the Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform
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Abstract

Why buy a bottle when you can have your own keg? Open source hardware might not shout “free beer” but the new Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform, maintained by OpenHW Foundation, is just that – free recipes for your own free-flowing beer. From CVA6 superscalers to UVM support on Verilator, Chips JU project TRISTAN has united Europe’s biggest industry players with academia to move open source semiconductors from the lab to the real world. Now with the UAP, you can benefit from all of this hard work. In this talk, you’ll get uncensored access to recent advancements in European RISC-V, and a demonstration of how you can immediately leverage industry-ready open source designs from projects across Europe, all explained with glorious beer.

Speakers

Cairo Caplan

Cairo Caplan is a Verification Engineer on the OpenHW Foundation WG, part of the Eclipse Foundation. Holding a Physics MSc and PhD, focused on Instrumentation, and a EE BSc, he is interested on promoting open source chip design, verification and reuse, while working to improve the ecosystem of open-source RISC-V cores at OpenHW through the TRISTAN and RIGOLETTO projects.

Charley Mann

Charley Mann is a technical communicator and recovering journalist, helping engineers explain what their projects do, so fellow engineers can use them and not-so-technical folks can understand them. After a stint covering breaking news across APAC, she discovered open source technology and never looked back. For the past decade she's led technical content at organizations including Camunda and the CNCF, and today works at the OpenHW Foundation and Eclipse Foundation. Alongside, she serves as the comms lead for Chips JU project TRISTAN to advance RISC-V adoption across Europe.

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