[svlug-announce] SVLUG July meeting: RISC-V - Open Source Hardware ISA - New Kid on the Block with Khem Raj

WHEN:

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 
7 - 8:30pm



MAIN PRESENTATION

TOPIC: RISC-V - Open Source Hardware ISA - New Kid on the Block 

PRESENTED BY: Khem Raj,
Distinguished Engineer Embedded Linux, Comcast, Inc.


TOPIC SUMMARY:

RISC-V is a Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture provided
under BSD license, unleashing new means of processor innovation with
open collaboration, delivering a new freedom of hardware and software
design. It's filled with the potential to do what Linux started for the
software ecosystem, some 25 years ago, i.e., lighting the open source
movement, but for hardware and CPU design and influencing CPU innovation
for rest of the 21st Century and beyond. We will talk about the RISC-V
ecosystem, and the progress it has made thus far in a short span, from
2010 onwards.

SVLUG is pleased to co-sponsor this meeting with Silicon Valley Linux
Technology Meetup
(https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Linux-Technology/events/252639151/).


ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Khem Raj (https://www.linkedin.com/in/khemraj,
https://plus.google.com/+KhemRaj/) s a Linux architect at Comcast,
helping several open source initiatives within the company: He is
guiding the company's adoption of open source software, and becoming an
active contributor to the open source components used in the RDK settop
software stack. One of the most recent projects he has worked on is
migrating RDK to an OpenEmbedded/Yocto-based framework for build system
and embedded Linux distribution generation. He is also actively working
on making the RDK community adopt the RDK framework for future TV settop
devices and broadband gateways. He is a Yocto Project advisory board
member, and member of the technical steering Committee for the
OpenEmbedded project. He is core maintainer for several key pieces in
OpenEmbedded framework, including core metadata, toolchains, and SDKs.
Prior to Comcast, Khem helped Juniper migrate the Junos operating system
to use embedded Linux as the base operating system. Khem is a frequent
speaker at conferences, most recently gave a talk at Yocto Developer Day
and Embedded Linux Conference in Europe.


LOCATION:

 Cavium cafeteria
 2315 N 1st St. (corner of Charcut Ave.)
 north San Jose

 Directions on how to get there are listed at:
 http://www.svlug.org/directions/cavium.php    <--- maps here!

We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers
know!  [email protected]


POST-MEETING GATHERING (if you want):

La Victoria Taqueria, 1415 N 4th St. near Gish Road, San Jose.
Go south 0.7 miles on N. 1st St. under US-101, then turn half-left
onto Matrix Blvd., in 0.3 miles a slight right onto N. 4th Street,
0.5 miles to La Victoria on your right just before Gish Road.


We look forward to seeing you there!




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