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06/08/23 08:32 AM IST

Digital India RISC-V’ Symposium

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  • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, IIT Madras and IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation are collaborating to present the "Digital India RISC-V Symposium, a one-day event showcasing the future of Electronics" in India through the RISC-V pathway.
About RISC-V
  • ‘RISC’ stands for ‘Reduced Instruction Set Computer’ and ‘V’ stands for the fifth generation.
  • The RISC-V project began in 2010.
  • The RISC-V ISA enables a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration and aims to deliver a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.
  • Prof Kamakoti developed ‘SHAKTI,’ India’s first indigenously-designed microprocessor based on RISC-V ISA.
  • The RISC-V foundation was formed in 2015 with IIT Madras being one of the founder members.
  • The DIR-V (Digital India RISC-V) Microprocessor Program was launched in 2022 by the GOI, with an overall aim to enable the creation of Microprocessors for the future in India, for the world and achieve industry-grade silicon & Design wins by December 2023.
  • The RISC-V ISA based designs are used by many companies and start-ups. It is open source and free of cost.
  • For academicians, the pedagogy of RISC-V ISA opens up an industry-relevant curriculum with numerous exciting research and applications.
Source- PIB

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