Atif Zafar, CEO at Pixlica, will attend SIGGRAPH 2019, 28 July-1 August, 2019, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. He will make a talk about RISC-V and an extension for Graphic Processing: RISC-V Graphical ISA.
Meet with him at SIGGRAPH and share your thoughts about this extension with the community on our forum!
hi atif, i apologise, we were not aware of this event in time to participate, and our team is funded through NLNet's Privacy and Enhanced Trust Programme http://nlnet.nl/PET - we did not request the funds for travel to events, only for actual development.
you may have heard of the Libre 3D GPU effort, where we are developing a Vulkan Driver called Kazan (effectively a SPIR-V to LLVM IR compiler that is aware of 3D custom GPU hardware extensions that we are also developing). https://libre-riscv.org/3d_gpu/ it would be good to collaborate on this in an open and transparent fashion: 3D is hard enough as it is! can you make publicly available a PDF of the slides, or point to an online recording of the session?
warmest,
l.
Hi Luke:
I know of your effort and we referenced your work in our slides. Yes, we would love to work with you. We have interest from the CHIPS Alliance, the RISC-V Foundation, GoWin Semi and others to build this. When you get a chance send me an email at Atif@Pixilica.com and we can discuss by phone. Thanks so much.
Best
Atif
oh cool! that's really great to hear that you referenced our work. will be in touch tomorrow, it's 4am here in taiwan at the moment.
Dear All,
To help you understand the RISC-V Graphics ISA idea we are working on, please have a look on the slides attached. If you have any question or feedback, please share it with us here, on the forum or email the team.
Nicolas