Course Overview, Objectives and Timing
This course has five chapters that will guide you through the various aspects of understanding the RISC-V community ecosystem, the RISC-V specifications, and some technical aspects of working with RISC-V.
While this course will not teach you everything you need to know about how to design your own RISC-V processor, it will help experienced developers understand what is different about RISC-V from other architectures, and give you a clear path to getting started with RISC-V in any area of the computer industry. More than that, we will show you how to work within the RISC-V community so you can understand what exists, what is coming soon, and how to help us make the magic happen. The course showcases a series of assembly language code examples for you to get familiar with the technical aspects of the ISA and assembly language.
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the nature, history, and ongoing practices of RISC-V as a technology, an international organization, and a community of developers and implementers.
- Describe the technical aspects of the RISC-V ISA.
- Put the RISC-V ISA into action with a simulator running simple assembly language applications.
- Choose the right development tool for your next RISC-V related project.
You should expect to spend approximately 10 hours to complete this course. You have unlimited access to the content for 12 months from the date you registered, even after you have completed the course.
The chapters in the course have been designed to build on one another. It is probably best to work through them in sequence; if you skip or only skim some chapters quickly, you may find there are topics being discussed you have not been exposed to yet. But this is all self-paced, you can always go back, thread your own path through the material, and return to exactly where you left off when you come back to start a new session. However, we still suggest you avoid long breaks in between periods of work, as learning will be faster and content retention improved.
