The RISC V Alliance announces a grant contest for academic courses
A grant contest for the development and implementation of educational materials based on RISC-V architecture has started. The competitive selection will be carried out by the RISC-V Alliance, which includes St Petersburg University. Fifteen winners will receive financial support of up to 200,000 roubles for the implementation of their projects.
RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles to control microprocessors and microcontrollers. Last year, St Petersburg University joined the Association of Independent Software and Computing Developers based on RISC-V architecture. At the moment, there have already been successful graduation projects performed on the basis of research in this field.
Doctoral students, lecturers, and researchers of the University can participate in the contest. Applications are accepted until 20 April 2024. According to the organisers, the application may include course syllabi, textbooks and lecture materials, presentations, laboratory work, video courses, and much more.
Applications can be submitted by email to admin@intuit.ru with the subject title ‘RISC-V Technologies’. The application should include materials in the Office Open XML format.
Within the contest, priority areas include the design of SoCs (A system on a chip) based on RISC-V architecture, system programming for RISC-V, embedded systems and the Internet of Things based on RISC-V microcontrollers, and others. The results of the competitive selection will be announced by 20 June 2024.
‘The development of training courses, materials, guidelines and teaching aids is one of the main goals of St Petersburg University as part of the RISC-V Alliance. High-quality education and training of qualified personnel are impossible today without high-quality teaching and methodological support and practical application of developments,’ said Sergey Mikushev, Vice-Rector for Research of St Petersburg University.
The RISC V Alliance was established in September 2022. Its main goal is to create an open community of software and hardware developers controlled by the community members for further development of RISC-V architecture in Russia. The members of the alliance include: server and storage manufacturer Yadro; processor developer Baikal Electronics; developer of the Vostok technological software and hardware platform; developer of the Astra Linux operating system Astra Group; and research and educational organisations.
An example of projects of this kind can be considered the development of an AI’s Internet of Things. The grant for the implementation of the University project was won in early 2024. St Petersburg University has overtaken seven Russian universities in the Digital Industry nomination. The project will be implemented in collaboration with the partners — Lartech, part of ER-Telecom Holding JSC, supplier and manufacturer of automated information systems and integrated solutions in the field of the Internet of Things, and the ITPS Group of Companies.