RISC-V Verification, Zurich

RISC-V is rapidly transforming the semiconductor landscape with its open and extensible instruction set architecture. As adoption accelerates across industries, the need for robust and scalable verification methodologies has never been more critical.

Join us at DVClub Zurich as we dive into the latest innovations and challenges in RISC-V verification. This event will bring together leading experts to share real-world insights, best practices, and advanced techniques for verifying RISC-V cores and complex systems. Whether you’re building commercial RISC-V products or exploring open-source initiatives, this is a must-attend for anyone passionate about quality and reliability in hardware design.

Event Details:

  • Tue 15 Jul 2025
  • 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • Room Number ETZ E8, Gloriastrasse 35, 8006

Agenda (CEST)

TimeSession DescriptionPresentationsVideos
12.00Arrival, registration, networking, light refreshments
13:00Derisking the RISC-V by Puneet Goel, Coverify
13:30Advanced RISC-V Verification by Dave Kelf, Breker Systems
14:00Extending a RISC-V Industrial-Grade Core (without breaking it) by Mike Thompson and Cairo Caplan, Open HW Group
14:30Security verification of AXI on RISC-V by Melisande Zonta-Roudes, ETH Zurich
15:00Break with refreshments/networking
15:30Automatic ISA analysis for Secure Context Switching by Neelu Shivprakash Kalani, EPFL & IBM Research
16:00Proof Strategies in the Comprehensive Formal Verification of the Ibex Processors by Louis-Emile Ploix, lowRISC / University of Oxford
16:30Strengthening RISC-V with Formal Verification for your next tape out: Properties, Coverage, and Model Checking by Cristina Augello & Stefano Moncalvo, STMicroelectronics
17:00MileSan: Detecting Exploitable Microarchitectural Leakage via Differential Hardware-Software Taint Tracking by Tobias Kovats, ETH Zurich
17:15Pathfinder: Constructing Cycle-accurate Taint Graphs for Analyzing Information Flow Traces by Katharina Ceesay-Seitz, ETH Zurich
17:30Encarsia: Evaluating CPU Fuzzers via Automatic Bug Injection by Matej Bölcskei, ETH Zurich
17:45Refreshments/networking