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SUMMARY:RISC-V: A Free and Open Instruction Set Architecture - Krste Asano
 vic\, University of California\, Berkeley
DTSTART:20141009T150000Z
DTEND:20141009T160000Z
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CONTACT:Robert Mullins
DESCRIPTION:RISC-V is a new instruction set architecture (ISA) that was or
 iginally designed to support computer architecture research and education\
 , but for which we now have grander goals: Just as Linux has become the st
 andard OS for most computing devices\, we envision RISC-V becoming\nthe st
 andard ISA for all computing devices.\n\nIn this talk\, I'll first present
  our arguments why instruction sets want to be free\, then introduce our m
 otivations in designing a new ISA\, give an overview of the RISC-V ISA\, a
 nd conclude with current status and future plans.\n\nKrste Asanovic is a P
 rofessor in the EECS Department at the University of California\, Berkeley
 .  He received a B.A. in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridg
 e University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in
  1998.  He joined the EECS\nfaculty at MIT in 1998\, receiving tenure in 2
 005. Escaping the brutal Boston winters\, he moved back to UC Berkeley and
  co-founded the Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory in 2007.  He is cur
 rently the Director of the ASPIRE Lab\, which includes 11 faculty and arou
 nd 50 graduate students focused on software and hardware specialization fo
 r improved energy efficiency.  His various research projects have designed
  and fabricated over a dozen experimental microprocessor prototypes.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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