Certification Steering Committee
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3rd CSC Face2Face
April 8th & 9th (Tues/Wed). Hosted by Qualcomm in Santa Clara (3135 Kifer Rd Santa Clara, CA 95051 - Building C)
Registration (now open, closes April 1st): http://tech.riscv.org/csc-rsvp
Session proposals (now closed)
Groups.io email list: csc-face2face-meetings
CSC Information
Leadership | Group Links | Useful Links: | Key Meetings (Pacific time) |
Chair: James Ball (Qualcomm) Vice-Chair: Bilal Zafar (10xEngineers) Program Manager: Jamie Grimm (VTM Group) |
| CSC-wide meeting:
CSC Leads meeting:
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Active CSC Work Groups
Work Group | Group Links | Leadership | Initial High-Level Charter | Lifetime | Meeting Times (Pacific) |
Customer Survey and MRD | David Kelf James Shi |
| Open Ended | Tuesday 7am (weekly) | |
Tests & Models Recommendation | Umer Shahid Adnan Hamid |
| 4 months | Thursday 7am (weekly) | |
CSC Business Plan | Larry Lapides Bilal Zafar |
| 6 months | Friday 8am (weekly) | |
RVCP Operations | Jason Smith Enrique Pallares |
| 3 months | Mondays 9am (weekly) | |
Microcontroller | James Ball Christian Herber |
| 4 months | Wednesday 9am (weekly) | |
WG Leads Meeting | CSC chair/vice-chair |
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| Thursday 9am (bi-weekly, week before CSC-wide meeting) |
CSC Links:
Find this under Administrative folder under CSC files link above
v0.4 approved by BoD in their March 28, 2024 meeting
How the CSC makes decisions (i.e., voting procedures, voting rights) and Work Groups
Uses RVI groups.io facility
Presentations, minutes, administrative, etc.
Currently using Google Drive
Contains links to Zoom recordings
CSC has its own GitHub "organization" with one or more "repositories"
Add people for GitHub access - Need permissions or you'll get a 404 error.
Record of attendance of Premier & Strategic members
Used to determine voting rights
CSC Jira
TBD - Still being setup.
CSC Restrictions of TSC Specifications
Detailed discussion of WARL fields and ACT/Sail Input
May 2020
Mainly Paul Donahue, Allen Baum, Greg Favor, & Andrew Waterman
CSC-related Links:
Candidate Test Suites:
Tenstorrent Certification Test Suite
Synopsys Verification Test Suite
Contains both riscvOVPsim reference simulator and architectural validation tests
CVW (Core-V Wally) Verification Test Suite
Collaboration between David Harris at Harvey Mudd University and the Open HW Foundation (previously Open HW Group)
RVI ACT (Architectural Compliance Tests)
ACT SIG - Oversees development of ACT
ACT Tutorial (YouTube), Neel Gala & Pawan Kumar, NA Summit 2022
Sail
Sail Language Documentation (also read Liquid Types)
RVI Sail Survey Results (Jan 2024)
Sail Tutorial by Bill McSpadden (NA Summit 2022, YouTube, 1hr)
Compatibility Test Framework
Compares signature between two models and selects tests according to the model configuration
RISCOF (RISC-V Architectural Compatibility Test Framework) GitHub, Documentation
Uses the RISCV-CONFIG tool to select and configure tests to match implementation choices
Test Framework Configuration Tool (RISCV-CONFIG) - GitHub, Documentation
Spike GitHub - RISC-V ISS
QEMU GitHub - Open-source ISS supporting many ISAs including RISC-V
Renode - Simulator framework for a FSS (Full System Simulator)
Whisper - Simulator now maintained by Tenstorrent
Profiles & Platforms
Profiles
Profile Extensions - Shows which RISC-V extensions are in each profile
Platforms
Current rules for using RISC-V trademark and logo
Platforms Policy - Preliminary and out-of-date
Profiles Policy - Last updated in 2021
ACT Policy - Last updated in Jan 2024
RISC-V International