Introduction To Risc-V And Risc-V Assembly Programming

Introduction to RISC-V & RISC-V Instructions to start with RISC-V based embedded systems.

What you'll learn

RISC-V Instruction Set Architecuture

RV32I Base Instructions

Development Environment Setup

Write simple applications like Fibonacci Series & Bubble Sort in RISC-V assembly

Requirements

If you are already an embedded developer or have knowledge about any processor, then this course will help you to jump start with RISC-V

Description

RISC-V is a open Instruction Set Architecture and being quickly adapted across the globe. This course would be great course to starters to know about RISC-V to know what is RISC-V, RISC-V standard extensions and how RISC-V supports custom instruction on top of standard instructions. This course would be of great interest for embedded developers with prior knowledge on any processor architecture and instruction set architecture willing to learn or jump start with RISC-V processor & instruction set architecture. This course provides information on all aspects to jump start with RISC-V from available boards, simulators and tools and all needful to  quickly start with RISC-V assembly programming.  This course discusses in detail the RV32I base instructions including Load, Store, Arithmetic and control (unconditional jump and conditional branch) transfer instructions with examples to lay a strong foundation on base RISC-V assembly instructions & then followed by implementing Fibonacci sequence and Bubble sort implementation in RISC-V assembly.  The Fibonacci sequence generation and bubble sort implementation would provide insights on the base RV32I instructions and its usage to make it easy to understand along with the introduction to assembler directives and RISC-V pseudo instructions. This would also touch on the RISC-V standards when and where its needed.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to the course

Section 2: RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture

Lecture 2 RISC-V Base Integer Instruction Set

Lecture 3 Modularity and Extensibility of RISC-V ISA

Lecture 4 Customizability Support in RISC-V ISA

Section 3: RV32I Base Instructions

Lecture 5 Load Instructions

Lecture 6 Store Instructions

Lecture 7 Arithmetic Instructions

Lecture 8 Alternate Register Names & Special X0 Register in RISC-V

Lecture 9 Logical & Arithmetic Shift Left & Right Instructions

Lecture 10 Control Transfer Instructions

Section 4: Introduction to RISC-V Development Environment

Lecture 11 RISC-V Development Boards, Emulators, IDE and Toolchain

Lecture 12 RISC-V Pseudo Instructions & Assembler Directives

Lecture 13 Introduction to Freedom Studio

Section 5: Excerices

Lecture 14 Fibonacci Sequence Generation in RISC-V Assembly

Lecture 15 Bubble Sort in RISC-V Assembly

Anyone who wants to quickly start with RISC-V assembly programming & jump into RISC-V ecosystem.,This is a beginner's course about RISC-V & RISC-V eco system.