The Delhi event concludes the six city RISC V tour in India
New Delhi, India, August 31st, 2018 – SiFive and Open-Silicon, two global giants of the semiconductor industry concluded their six city RISC-V Tech Symposium Tour in the capital city. The Symposiums started in Hyderabad and were also conducted in Bangalore, Chennai,Pune and Kolkata. The event was attended by academic leaders and dignitaries such as Naresh Rana, Manager of Business Development, Western Digital, Pankaj Kakkar, Solutions Group Director, Cadence, Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi,Kunal Ghosh, Director & Co-Founder, VSD, Anagha Ghosh, Business Head & Co-Founder, VSD, Swamy Irrinki, Sr. Director of Marketing, , SiFive , Dr. Shafy Eltoukhy, SVP of Operations and GM of SoC Division, SiFive and Huzefa Cutlerywala, MD of Open-Silicon India.
The events were hosted to spread awareness for RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture that has stirred a revolution in the industry and is rapidly increasing its ecosystem. It is being preferred by leading system, chip design organizations, several start-ups and governments around the world. The tech symposium in New Delhi enabled industry experts, students and engineers to share their thoughts on RISC-V ecosystem and understand the role of RISCV to develop indigenous processors for control and security by national Government, and current research being conducted at Indian educational institutes and research organizations. The esteemed speakers used the platform to discuss the nuances of Hardware Designing and Designing complex RISC -V SoCs.
The six-city tour saw around 1250+ students, industry experts, engineers and researchers gather and share the platform with the esteemed speakers. During the tour, SiFive also announced first of its kind Design Contest in India. The Design Contest aims to enable some of the most underutilized ideas from Indian non-commercial entities, including academic institutions, students, research groups, non-profits or individuals. SiFive will collaborate with the best ideas and provide the winners’ access to custom CPU IP, design support, and help delivering working samples for the chip. The contest will run from 21st August till 30th November 2018.
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“The fact that this open architecture has the capacity to bring custom silicon to all inventors and makers will benefit the entire semiconductor ecosystem,” said Shafy Eltoukhy, SVP of Operations and GM of SoC Division, SiFive.We are already witnessing a major shift in innovation from thinkers and dreamers who were previously unable to access custom silicon.
For details on the contest and submission visit www.sifivecontest.com
About Open-Silicon: Open-Silicon, a SiFive Company is a semiconductor solutions company founded in 2003 to provide traditional ASIC design, derivative and platform custom SoCs, and deliver fully tested silicon and platforms. Open-Silicon’s OpenMODEL™ is the semiconductor industry’s first end-to-end custom SoC development solution to select best-in-class technology from the open market and apply it through an engineering process focused on three goals: low total cost of ownership, high schedule predictability, and high reliability. The company has successfully completed 300+ designs and shipped over 135 million custom SoCs/ASICs to date.Link: https://www.open-silicon.com/
About SiFive: :SiFive is the leading provider of market-ready processor core IP based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Led by a team of industry veterans and founded by the inventors of RISC-V, SiFive helps SoC designers reduce time-to-market and realize cost savings with customized, open-architecture processor cores, and democratizes access to optimized silicon by enabling system designers to build customized RISC-V based semiconductors. SiFive is located in Silicon Valley and has venture backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners, Intel Capital and Chengwei Capital, along with strategic partners Huami, SK
Telecom and Western Digital. For more information, visit www.sifive.com.
