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Building your own RISC-V Processor

Learn to design digital logic for ASICs and FPGAs using next-generation Verilog (Transaction-Level Verilog) design in the online Makerchip IDE. In just a week, you can build and simulate a pipelined RISC-V CPU core from your browser. After this course, you will understand digital logic design concepts and advanced design methods. You'll become familiar with the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and you'll understand how a CPU executes RISC-V instructions to run a computer program.

This course is appropriate for newcomers to digital logic and experts alike. Industry veterans will refresh their toolbox with a fresh perspective on familiar concepts, learning an approach to logic design that has not been possible until recently.

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What you will learn in this course

1
Digital Logic
Introduction to digital logic, logic gates, and combinational logic. Introduction to the Makerchip online development environment. Labs include a calculator circuit.
2
Sequential Logic
Introduction to sequential logic. Labs include a counter and modifying the calculator to sequence calculations.
3
Pipelined Logic
Pipelining logic for high performance. Labs include pipelining the calculator circuit.
4
Modeling Validity of Signals and State
Modeling the validity of computations and its benefits for error checking, debugging, and reducing power with fine-grained clock gating. Modeling state that holds its value by default. Labs include adding validity (and therefore clock gating) as well as adding a single-value memory to the calculator circuit.
5
Basic CPU Microarchitecture
A typical microarchitecture of a single-cycle RISC-V CPU core. Overview of the CPU lab environment.
6
Instruction Fetching and Decoding
Concepts and lab exercises for developing logic to maintain the program counter (PC), fetch instructions, and decode instructions.
7
Register File, ALU, and Branching
Concepts and lab exercises for instantiating the register file for reading instruction operands and writing instruction results, performing computations for arithmetic instructions in the arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and executing branch instructions that modify the program counter.
8
Simple Pipelining of the CPU
Control flow hazards and data flow hazards in pipelined CPUs. Labs for pipelining the CPU core in a three-cycle pipeline with simple low-performance assumptions.
9
Improving Performance
Lab exercises that address hazards, including register forwarding/bypass logic. Completing instruction decode and ALU logic for a baseline (RV32I) RISC-V CPU core.
10
Data Memory, Loads, and Stores, and Jumps
Introduction to data memory operations. Labs to instantiate a data memory, load data from memory to registers, store data from registers to memory, and test memory instructions. Lab to add control logic for jump instructions. Course wrap-up.

Pricing Plans

Choose from three different pricing plans that meet your needs and expectations. Begin your learning journey today.

Online

$99
  • Ideal for individuals
  • Online video access for 12 weeks for 1 person
  • Every online access can be extended for free for 1 month
  • All lessons available immediately
  • PDF Certificate (after completing activities) for 1 person
  • 100% money-back guarantee (up to 30 days from order)
  • Unlimited video access (once downloaded)
  • Video download available
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Online and Download

$199
  • Ideal for Individuals and Companies with smaller teams
  • Online video access for 12 weeks for up to 3 people
  • Every online access can be extended for free for 2 months
  • All lessons available immediately
  • PDF Certificate (after completing activities) for up to 3 people
  • 100% money-back guarantee (up to 30 days from order)
  • Unlimited video access (once downloaded)
  • Video download available after 30 days
Course add-ons (optional)
Official
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$149
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$59
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Quick Download

$249
  • Ideal for Professionals and Companies with more than 3 engineers
  • Online video access for 12 weeks for up to 5 people
  • Every online access can be extended for free for 3 months
  • All lessons available immediately
  • PDF Certificate (after completing activities) for up to 5 people
  • 100% money-back guarantee (up to 30 days from order)
  • Unlimited video access (once downloaded)
  • Video download available immediately
Course add-ons (optional)
Official
paper certificate
0x
$149
Additional
online license
0x
$59
Add to Cart

Your instructor
Steve Hoover

With nearly 20 years of experience developing CPU and network chips for high-performance computing systems and several years as founder and CEO of Redwood EDA, Steve Hoover brings a great deal of industry knowledge to his courses.

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