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Room/Location: Room MR03
Note: (s) denotes a 15-minute slot; others are 30 minutes.
09:00 am - 09:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15 am - 10:30 am Keynote - Chair: Amer Baghdadi
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Session 1: Modeling, Simulation and Validation - Session Chair: Felipe Gohring De Magalhaes
12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Lunch break
01:30 pm - 03:00 pm Session 2: Architectures and Accelerator Integration - Session Chair: Frédéric Rousseau
03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Coffee break
03:30 pm - 05:00 pm Session 3: Special Session on RISC-V Extensions, Platforms and Verification - Session Chair: Kenneth Kent
09:15 am - 10:30 am Session 4: Software and Prototyping - Session Chair: Amer Baghdadi
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Session 5: Security, Optimizations and Estimation - Session Chair: Gary Grewal
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Concluding Remarks
12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Lunch break
Keynote: To Full RISC-V Systems and Beyond: Focus on the Memory Hierarchy
César Fuguet, Ph.D., Researcher at Inria, member of the MADMAX team in the TIMA laboratory, France.

Abstract: The instruction set architecture (ISA) is an essential part of processors. It is the vocabulary that the software uses to indicate the commands (or instructions) to be executed by the processor. Many of our modern computing devices implement proprietary ISAs such as ARM (most smartphones) and x86 (most PCs and servers). However, RISC-V, a free and open ISA created around 2011 by Berkeley, is stirring things up. Its openness enables competition and innovation as it allows both academic and industrial players to implement it without having to pay expensive licenses. This is key to this “new golden age for computer architecture,” as declared by the 2017 Turing Award recipients (John Hennessy and David Patterson), where we need new approaches to keep improving performance and, most importantly, energy efficiency.
This presentation will introduce some of our work where we take advantage of RISC-V to address the performance and energy-efficiency challenges. We show that the openness of RISC-V enables full-stack optimizations; this not only allows us to optimize the processor core's microarchitecture but also system-level aspects (both hardware and software) such as the memory hierarchy and the virtual memory addressing schemes.
Bio: César Fuguet is a researcher at Inria (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatisation) in the TIMA laboratory of the University Grenoble Alpes since November 2024, after spending 9 years as a researcher at CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives). He earned a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes in Venezuela in 2011 and a PhD in Computer Sciences and Electronics from Université Paris 6 in 2015. His research interests are the hardware design of multi-core, multi-chiplet, heterogeneous architectures, cache hierarchy, and cache coherence with a focus on both performance scalability and energy efficiency. He is co-chair of the Interconnect Task Group in the OpenHW Foundation and an active contributor to open-source hardware projects such as the OpenHW application-class RISC-V CVA6 core.