RISC-V Foundational Associate (RVFA) Prep

Topic 1 RISC-V Overview

• History of RISC-V: The Free and Open ISA
• RISC-V International
• RISC-V Documentation
• Contribute to RISC-V

Topic 2 RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture

• RV32I and RV64I
• Understand Instruction Formats: branching, accessing memory, and accessing data structures
• Understand the modularity of RISC-V as an ISA: core ratified (M, C, F, D, A) and other extensions
• Understand Privilege Modes, system calls, CSRs, exceptions, and interrupt handling
• Understand memory model, cache management, and virtual memory management

Topic 3 Assembly Language for RISC-V

• Understand RISC-V specific assembly language syntax and features, including CSR access
• Write and debug RISC-V assembly code
• Assess performance of assembly code
• Convert high-level code to assembly code

Topic 4 High Level Languages for RISC-V: C Programming

• Understand RISC-V tools including compilers, debuggers, simulators, performance tools, OSes, and SDKs
• Understand calling conventions (ABIs), the stack, and disassembly
• Understand inline assembly

Topic 5 RISC-V Operating Systems & Tools

• Fundamentals of Operating Systems including implementing basic OS functionality in RISC-V ASM
• Understanding basic use and functionality of firmware for RISC-V platforms
• Understanding microcontrollers versus application processors
• Running RISC-V Applications in a General Purpose OS

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Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

• Able to operate using computer functions
• Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

• Positive Learning Attitude
• Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

• Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Target Age Group: 18-65 years old

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

TBD

Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops

• Embedded Systems Engineer
• Firmware Developer
• Computer Engineer
• Systems Programmer
• Software Developer
• RISC-V Hardware Developer
• CPU Architect
• Low-Level Software Engineer
• OS Developer
• IoT Developer
• SoC Integration Engineer
• Microcontroller Programmer
• Instruction Set Architect
• Technical Support Engineer
• Performance Optimization Engineer
• Software Tools Developer
• Kernel Developer
• Platform Engineer
• Embedded Systems Tester
• Research Engineer

Truman Ng: Truman Ng is a ACTA certified trainer that graduated with Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from NUS in year 2002. He designed Artificial Intelligence (AI) controller for DC-DC Power Convertor by using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network (NN) as his university Final Year Project.

Truman has over 15 years project experiences across Database & Web Design, PLC machinery, Data Center Design , Structure Cabling System(SCS) and Enterprise Network Design and Implementation. He used to be a network architect for Hewlett Packard, working with a group of virtual team from the US in handling network design and projects in the States.

Truman is the founder of Nexplore (S) Pte Ltd. He provides solutions of Cloud SaaS, IaaS & PaaS and Software Defined Network (SDN), VoIP and Internet Security. He was engaged by Huawei Global Training Center to provide 60+ consultations and trainings for Internet Service Providers(ISP) from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines, Australia, Poland, Iran, South Africa, Swaziland, Cote Dlvoire, Syria, Uzbekistan, New Zealand and countries over the world.
As achievement, Truman has successfully completed 100+ IT network projects for Bank, Hotel and Factory within 5 years.
Truman is certified in PMP, Cisco CCNP, CCIP, CCDP, HP Ase and Huawei HCNP, HCIE R&S, HCNA Cloud, HCNA Security, etc.

Anil Bidari: Anil  is a ACLP certified trainer. He is an Enterprise Cloud and DevOps Consultant , responsible for  helping clients to move Virtual data centre to Private Cloud based on OpenStack and Public Cloud ( AWS, Azure and Google cloud) . Consulting and training experience on Devops tool chain like github , Jenkins, Sonarqube, Docker & kubernetes, Cloud foundry, Openshift, Ansible and SaltStack. Lot of my Role is involved design and implementation of a solution and training