Embedded Fun with RISC-V/ Part 1: The RISC-V ISA

About Course

Get started with RISC-V embedded systems! This free course covers the fundamentals of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and introduces you to embedded development.

Learn about different RISC-V ISA variants and compare them to traditional architectures. You’ll gain hands-on experience with the GD32 board and Segger Embedded Studio, a powerful IDE for embedded development. Explore practical examples, hands-on projects, and build a solid foundation in RISC-V embedded development.

This course is completely free and available through Theetay, your platform for accessing top-rated courses from Udemy, Udacity, Coursera, MasterClass, NearPeer, and more. Enroll today and start your journey into the world of RISC-V!

Course Content

Introduction

A Message from the Professor
Introduction

03:25
Motivation 1 Become a part of the RISC-V community!

00:44
Motivation 2 Learn Computer Architecture

00:50
Motivation 3 Get over the Arduino!

00:47
Course Material Download Link

00:00

About RISC-V

Optional A Crash Course on Computer Architecture

Optional Inside the CPU

Optional Some Design Approaches

The RISC-V ISA

RV32I Integer Base ISA

RV32 Extension ISAs

Atomic Operations

The GD32VF103 Board

The Development Environment

The Debugger

Using The Debugger

01:46
A Pickle

04:13
The First Workaround

09:54
The Second Workaround

02:07
Step by Step Execution and Watches

02:34
Step by Step Execution in Assembly Language

01:08
Register Watches

03:49
Assembly Code with Integers

06:29
Look at the Compressed Instructions

03:55
Function Calls

02:53
Assembly Code with Floats

02:35
Final Remarks

00:25

Wrap Up

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Ahmad Mushtaq

11 months ago

Nice course on RISC-V. Was my first time learning the RISC-V architecture and it was really easy keeping up with the lectures thanks to the comprehensive explanations of each part. Highly recommended for students learning Microprocessors and Assembly Language.

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Introduction

A Message from the Professor

Introduction

Motivation 1 Become a part of the RISC-V community!

Motivation 2 Learn Computer Architecture

Motivation 3 Get over the Arduino!

Course Material Download Link

About RISC-V

About RISC-V

CISC vs RISC Architectures

RISC-V ISA

The RISC-V Foundation

The RISC-V Reader An Open Architecture Atlas

ARM and a Leg

Optional A Crash Course on Computer Architecture

Parts of a Microprocessor-Based System

Why we need a Bus Architecture

The Bus Architecture

The Data Bus

The Address Bus

The Control Bus

How is it possible to drive a bus

The Memory Subsystem

The InputOutput Subsystem

Optional Inside the CPU

Parts of a CPU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

Registers

Special Registers

The Data Path

Control Logic

Instruction Encoding

Instruction Execution

Optional Some Design Approaches

Instruction Set Architecture

Addressing Modes

Some Addressing Mode Examples

Number of Operands per Instruction

Harvard vs. Von Neumann

The RISC-V ISA

Introduction

CPU Registers

Addressing Modes

Instruction Sets

Instruction Encoding Part 1

Instruction Encoding Part 2

Encoding of Immediate Values

RISC-V Reference Card

RV32I Integer Base ISA

Register Operations

Immediate Operations

Load and Store

Branches

Jumps

Load Immediates

RV32 Extension ISAs

RV32M Multiply Extension ISA

RV32FD Floating-Point Extension ISAs

FCLASS

RV32C Compressed Extension ISA

Atomic Operations

Atomic Operations

Race Condition Example

Race Conditions

Implementing a Lock Part 1

Implementing a Lock Part 2

RV32A Atomic Extension ISA

The GD32VF103 Board

Some RISC-V SoCs

SiFive

Some RISC-V Boards

The GD32VF103 Board

The Development Environment

Looking for an IDE

Finding SEGGER Embedded Studio

Setting up the Development Environment

Looking at the Sample Projects