An Open-Source Project for High-Performance RISC-V Processors Meeting Industrial-Grade Standards

Speaker: Yungang Bao. Deputy Director, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chief Scientist, Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip.

It is widely recognized that the open-source hardware ecosystem can reduce development costs and lower barrier to innovation. Within this ecosystem, developing an industrial-grade high-performance processor has thus far proven to be an elusive goal. In our view, an industrial-grade processor should involve standardized development process with robust functional and performance verification, requiring a significant upfront investment of manpower and resources. In response to the demands, we introduce XiangShan, an open-source project for high performance RISC-V processor. To the best of our knowledge, it is the world’s top tier of high-performance RISC-V processor series and the only open-source option in its class. Moreover, supported by Minjie, an open-source agile development toolchain, the processors can be quickly iterated and optimized, enabling architectural innovation and rapid commercialization.

[charlesdorval]

Very nice work!
Thanks for sharing it with us, fascinating!

[marcfruchtman]

Thank you for the video. This is a very important open source project for the future.
Please note, the spelling of your "outline" slide, (2:29) as you have put the word "Imitative", which means to "copy" or "Imitate", and I am fairly certain that you want it to be "Initiative". Unfortunately, standard spelling checkers will miss this. But, it might be promising for a open source RISC based AI to catch! hehe