Micro Electronics Research Lab - MERL UIT

🎉 Meet Our Hounourable Chief Guest and Distinguished Speakers! 🎉

We are honored to welcome Dr. Naveed Sherwani as our Chief Guest at the RISC-V Karachi Meetup! An industry luminary and visionary, his presence promises to inspire and ignite innovation.

Also meet our esteemed Keynote Speakers for this event:

🌟 Dr. Syed Roomi Naqvi
🌟 Ali Ahmed, Ph.D.
🌟 Engr Farhan Ahmed Karim

Get ready for an enlightening experience at the RISC-V Karachi Meetup with these renowned experts leading the way! 🚀

We are delighted to introduce our esteemed academia speakers who will be sharing their valuable insights and perspectives at the upcoming RISC-V Karachi Meetup.

Meet Our Academic Speakers:
🎙️Muhammad Mohsin Siddiqui Research Assistant at MERL-UIT will discuss about TL-UH in Caravan for RV based cores.
🎙️Afeera Suhail from NED University will discuss Pipelining & Verification
of RISC-V Microprocessor.
🎙️Hamna Mohiuddin Research Intern at MERL-UIT will discuss about RISC-V Vector Extension.
🎙️Muhammad Tahir, Associate Professor at UET, will discuss about UETRV PCore: An Application Class RISC V Processor.
🎙️syed owais ali shah Research Intern at MERL-UIT will discuss about GeMM Accelerator Generator.
🎙️Hafsa Parker Research Assistant at MERL-UIT will discuss about Fine-Tuning an LLM for RISC-V and Verilog.

These distinguished individuals have accomplished milestones in the field of technology, and will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our event. They will be sharing their latest research findings and offering fresh perspectives on the RISC-V architecture.

Join us at the RISC-V Karachi Meetup to learn from these respected academic voices. 🚀

📅 Date: Saturday, 30 September, 2023
🕒 Time: 9:30 A.M - 5:00 P.M
🏢 Venue: UIT University

We look forward to fostering a rich and insightful discussion with our academic speakers. Stay tuned for more event updates, and be sure to register to secure your spot!

Announcing Our Esteemed Industrial Speakers! 🌟
We're thrilled to introduce the incredible lineup of industrial speakers for the RISC-V Karachi Meetup! 🎉

🌟 Zhiyang Ong will be presenting his talk on Helping Pythonistas Become Micro-architects
🌟 Jafar Safdar from Aql Tech Solutions (Pvt) Limited will discuss about RISC-V based IPs and SoC Design
🌟 Fatima Saleem from 10xEngineers will share A Comparative Analysis on Open-Source RISC-V Vector Test Suites
🌟 Abdul Muheet Ghani from Xcelerium will discuss about The Nova Project

These remarkable speakers will illuminate the RISC-V landscape from diverse perspectives, offering invaluable insights and sparking meaningful discussions.
Stay tuned for more updates and don't miss the chance to engage with these industry luminaries at the RISC-V Karachi Meetup. 🚀💡

🙌 **Big Thanks to Our Sponsor!** 🙌

We're thrilled to express our gratitude to Sponsors RISC-V International, Aql Tech Solutions (Pvt) Limited, and UIT University for making the RISC-V Karachi Meetup a success. Your support empowered us to bring together students, faculty, industry professionals, and tech enthusiasts to explore the open-source RISC-V architecture. Together, we're shaping a brighter tech future! 👏👏

We are thrilled to unveil the event agenda for the RISC-V Karachi Meetup, taking place at UIT University on 30th September from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM! Hosted by Micro Electronics Research Lab and proudly sponsored by RISC-V International, Aql Tech Solutions (Pvt) Limited, and UIT University. We're all set to dive into a day packed with innovation, learning, and collaboration. 🤝💡

Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of RISC-V, explore cutting-edge insights, and connect with like-minded professionals and enthusiasts! Swipe left to check out the agenda. We can't wait to see you there! 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Great News!

We have extended the deadline for proposals to 24th Sept, 2023 - Sunday 11:59 pm PKT.

Submit your CFP and be a part of this event.
https://forms.gle/ZUhfroAVVGMUoB8i8

Reminder to submit your Abstract before 18th Sep - Monday. 📨

We are going to host RISC-V Karachi Meetup on 30th Sep, 2023. This event is hybrid so you can join us at UIT University or catch us live.

If you want to present your contribution in RISC-V, then submit the abstract here:
🔗 https://forms.gle/ZUhfroAVVGMUoB8i8

Want to join us in this event? Register here:
🔗 https://community.riscv.org/events/details/risc-v-international-risc-v-apac-presents-risc-v-karachi-meetup/

RISC-V Meetup Karachi! 📣

Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) presents the RISC-V Karachi Meetup. Embracing a hybrid format, this event at the Usman Institute of Technology welcomes participants both in-person and virtually, ensuring everyone can be part of this knowledge-rich experience.

🗓 30th September, 2023
🕘 09:30 am - 05:00 pm

Secure your participation:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dh5K5ZpV

Got a noteworthy RISC-V contribution? Showcase it:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/d_eHHhXN

Join us in this grand convergence of minds, regardless of geographical boundaries. The future of RISC-V in Pakistan is now!

It gives us great pleasure to announce that one of our projects, ChipShop: A Cloud-Based GUI for Accelerating SoC Design, has been accepted for the First FireSim and Chipyard User/Developer Workshop at ASPLOS 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Our research assistants at MERL, Shahzaib Kashif and Talha Ahmed, who have degrees in software engineering from UITU, deserve praise, as does the project's mentor, Dr. Farhan Ahmed Karim, the software team lead at MERL.

ChipShop is a cloud-based System-on-Chip (SoC) generation platform built on top of the Chipyard infrastructure, which provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) for the configuration of SoC Generation processes. This platform aims to simplify the SoC design process by allowing users to configure every aspect of their SoC with a user-friendly, intuitive interface, all hosted on the cloud.

Key Features:
- Graphical interface for configuring SoC Generation processes
- FPGA emulation and mapping through the GUI
- Realtime collaboration and version control

Another achievement for Micro Electronics Research Lab (MERL) - UIT University. MERL is mentoring 2 projects this spring in The Linux Foundation Mentorship Programme sponsored by RISC-V International.

RISC-V only sponsored 2 projects this spring, both are of MERL. "Adding F extension in NucleusRV Core" and "Implement Tilelink Uncached Heavyweight (TL-UH) in Caravan". We have received more than 180 applications from all over the world out of which only 2 qualified individuals will be selected. Mentors for above projects are our Software Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Engineering Graduates, Muhammad Hadir Khan, Usman Zain ul Abedin, Talha Ahmed, and Shahzaib Kashif.