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RISC-V Design - Architecture to Silicon

Execution-focused RISC-V mastery from ISA and decode through pipeline, extensions, privilege, memory virtualization, verification, and SoC bring-up closure.

Course promise

This is the execution-focused RISC-V design course for silicon teams. It teaches how to reason from workload symptoms to mechanisms, then close design decisions with artifacts, owners, and rollback-safe criteria.

  • Translate RISC-V architecture concepts into measurable engineering decisions.

  • Diagnose decode, pipeline, privilege, memory, extension, and integration bottlenecks.

  • Connect architecture choices to performance, power, timing, and bring-up risk.

  • Use one framework: workload -> mechanism -> artifact -> owner -> decision.


Course map

diagram
ISA and software contract
  -> decode and control intent
  -> pipeline timing and hazards
  -> extension and vector/crypto scaling
  -> privilege, traps, and CSR model
  -> MMU, TLB, and virtualization behavior
  -> verification closure and SoC bring-up

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