Certification Steering Committee

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CSC Information

Leadership

Group Links 

Useful Links:

Key Meetings (Pacific time)

Chair: James Ball (Qualcomm)

Vice-Chair: Bilal Zafar (10xEngineers)

Program Manager: Jamie Grimm (VTM Group)

 

CSC-wide groups.io

CSC-wide email list

CSC Google Drive

CSC-wide meetings:

  • Tuesdays 8am Pacific (bi-weekly)

    • Agenda set by CSC chair

  • Tuesdays 6:30pm Pacific (bi-weekly, alternate weeks)

    • Agenda set by James Shi

CSC Leads meeting:

  • Thursdays 8am Pacific (bi-weekly, opposite week of CSC-wide)

  • Agenda set by CSC vice-chair

Active CSC Work Groups

 Work Group

Group Links

Leadership
(click for email)

Initial High-Level Charter

Meeting Times (Pacific)

Requirements WG

Email

groups.io

GDrive

David Kelf
(acting chair)

  • Defines certificates by writing MRDs and CRDs for each certificate we will offer

  • Gathers input from RVI’s needs, customer needs, & ecosystem needs and balances those to define the certificates

Friday 8am (weekly)

Test Plan WG

Email

groups.io

GDrive

David Harris (chair)

Adnan Hamid (vice-chair)

 

  • Collaborates with TSC to extract normative rules

  • Defines test procedures and coverpoints for each normative rule

  • Creates curated list of SystemVerilog covergroups

Monday 8am (weekly)

RVCP Operations

Email

groups.io

GDrive

Jason Smith
(chair)

Enrique Pallares
(vice-chair)

  • Define roles & responsibilities for TSC, CSC, Labs, and customers

  • Define lab requirements and oversight method by CSC

  • Define the how/what of certificates including supply-chain migration

Mondays 9am (weekly)

Leads Meeting

Email

groups.io

CSC chair/vice-chair

  • All chairs and vice-chairs of other WGs meet to co-ordinate their groups and prepare for the following CSC-wide meeting

  • Any other RVI members/staff can attend

Thursday 9am (bi-weekly, week before CSC-wide NA/EU meeting)

 

CSC Links:

CSC Charter

  • Find this under Administrative folder under CSC files link above

  • v0.4 approved by BoD in their March 28, 2024 meeting

CSC Operating Guidelines

  • How the CSC makes decisions (i.e., voting procedures, voting rights) and Work Groups

  • Includes step-by-step guide on how to start a new Work Group

CSC Document Repository

  • Presentations, minutes, administrative, etc.

  • Currently using Google Drive

CSC Meeting Recordings

  • Contains links to Zoom recordings

CSC GitHub

CSC Voting Rights

  • Record of attendance of Premier & Strategic members

  • Used to determine voting rights

CSC Jira

CSC Restrictions of TSC Specifications

CSC-related Links:

Candidate Test Suites:

Sail

Compatibility Test Framework

  • Compares signature between two models and selects tests according to the model configuration

  • Uses the RISCV-CONFIG tool to select and configure tests to match implementation choices

Tools

  • Spike GitHub - RISC-V ISS

  • QEMU GitHub - Open-source ISS supporting many ISAs including RISC-V

  • Renode - Simulator framework for a FSS (Full System Simulator)

  • Whisper - Simulator now maintained by Tenstorrent

Profiles & Platforms

RISC-V Branding Guidelines

RISC-V International