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Second Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV 2018)

Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 2, 2018, Co-located with ISCA 2018

The Second Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV) brings together researchers in fields related to computer architecture, compilers, and systems for technical exchange on using RISC-V in computer architecture research. Submission of early work is encouraged. The topics of specific interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• RISC-V simulation/emulation infrastructures, including ports of existing infrastructures
• Easily modifiable RISC-V RTL cores to support research
• Whole-SoC simulators/emulators and/or models built around RISC-V
• Machine-readable formal models and verification methodologies
• Compiler toolchains and operating system ports to support systems research
• RISC-V-based research prototypes
• Security architecture research
• Memory model research
• Quantitative comparison of RISC-V with other ISAs

The workshop is intended to be highly interactive with an open session discussing experiences with using the current state of the RISC-V ecosystem for architecture research and what directions to take to improve it.

CARRV Program

8:30am - 9am Chiffre: A Configurable Hardware Fault Injection Framework for RISC-V Systems Schuyler Eldridge, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Pradip Bose (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) [paper] [slides] 9am - 9:30am Flexible Timing Simulation of RISC-V Processors with Sniper Neethu Bal Mallya (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Cecilia Gonzalez-Alvarez (Ghent University, Belgium), Trevor E. Carlson (National University of Singapore, Singapore) [paper] [slides] 9:30am - 10:00am Implementation of Direct Segments on a RISC-V Processor Nikhita Kunati, Michael M. Swift (University of Wisconsin-Madison) [paper] [slides]

10:00am - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 11:00am A Formally Verified Cryptographic Extension to a RISC-V Processor Joseph R. Kiniry (Galois, Inc.), Daniel M. Zimmerman (Galois, Inc.), Robert Dockins (Galois, Inc.) and Rishiyur Nikhil (Bluespec, Inc.) [paper] [slides] 11:00am - 11:30am Designing Digital Signal Processors with RocketChip Paul Rigge, Borivoje Nikolić (University of California, Berkeley) [paper] [slides] 11:30am - 12:00pm Automating the Area-Delay Trade-off Problem Haven Skinner, Rafael Trapani Possignolo, Jose Renau (UCSC) [paper] [slides]

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch

1:30pm - 2:00pm Debugging RISC-V Processors with FPGA-Accelerated RTL Simulation in the FPGA Cloud Donggyu Kim (University of California, Berkeley), Christopher Celio (Esperanto Technologies), Sagar Karandikar (University of California, Berkeley), David Biancolin (University of California, Berkeley), Jonathan Bachrach (University of California, Berkeley), Krste Asanovic (University of California, Berkeley) [paper] 2:00pm - 2:30pm Simulating Multi-Core RISC-V Systems in gem5 Tuan Ta, Lin Cheng, Christopher Batten (Cornell University) [paper]

2:30pm - 3:30pm Panel Discussions

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: March 17, 2018
• Full paper submission deadline: March 31, 2018 23:59 PST
• Author notification: April 8, 2017
• Camera-ready version due: May 19, 2018

Organizers

• Arvind (MIT)
• Krste Asanovic (University of California, Berkeley)
• Silviu Chiricescu (BAE Systems R&D)
• Yunsup Lee (SiFive)
• Michael Taylor (University of Washington)
• Arun Thomas (Draper)

Submission Guidelines

All papers should be submitted electronically by EasyChair. Submissions in PDF format must be limited to 6 pages including figures and tables, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers must be in PDF format and should include title, authors and affiliation, e-mail address of the contact author.

Papers must be formatted in accordance to the ACM two column style. ACM Word or LaTeX style templates are available here.

Note: Authors may submit to both CARRV and the 8th RISC-V Workshop, but please remember that CARRV has an explicit research focus.

Note: Workshop publications do not preclude publishing at future conference venues.

Contact

All questions about submissions can be emailed to Arun Thomas «arun.thomas@acm.org».

Past CARRVs

• CARRV 2017