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About this event
In this session, Dr. Ali Ahmed along with Zeeshan Rafique will be going to talk about the development of the RISC-V ecosystem in Pakistan and tell the audience about their journey and the problems they had faced during the development of Pakistan's first RISC-V based tapeout.
Ali Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UiT, Karachi. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, IoT, and Information Security. He is especially interested in micro-architecture, with a major current focus on memory and storage systems. He has 10+ years of experience in the complete Product development Cycle of CoTs (hardware and software). Involved in product development from scratch, hardware designing, middleware, and application-level development. Well versed in hardware platforms like FPGA s and Microcontrollers.He obtained his Ph.D. and MS in ECE from the Hanyang University, South Korea where he designed and Implemented memory architecture of SRAM-based Ternary Content Addressable Memory using Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7797247/)He obtained BE degrees in Electronics Engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. His industrial experience spans starting the Product development division at Horizon Tech, Islamabad (2008-2012).Specialties: FPGA:Xilinx ISE and vivado FPGA tool suite including XST, Place And Route, Chipscope, FPGA, VERILOG, ASIC, Modelsim, SOC, Embedded Microprocessors, I2C, PCI Express. Strong proficiency in the use of HDL for design capture, digital logic simulation tools, FPGA synthesis tools, and FPGA build tools.Internet of Things:IoT Embedded systems, Strong C programming skills, Experience with development on small, low-power embedded platforms (e.g. ARM Cortex-M3, STM32), Familiarity with wireless technologies ( BLE, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS), Familiarity with common communications protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, USB), Proficiency with commonly embedded toolchains (GCC, Keil, IAR, CCS) and version control systems, Experience with Embedded Linux, PCB design and layout, Embedded systems Architecture designs,
Zeeshan Rafique
Micro Electronics Research Lab
Zeeshan Rafique is a RISC-V Ambassador and Research Associate at Micro-Electronics Research Laboratory - UIT chapter, he is working on RISC-V since June 2019. His aim is to spread the awareness of RISC-V across different universities in Pakistan. He was a co-designer of the Ghazi SoC project (the Pakistan 1st RISC-V based tapeout) and still working as a hardware design researcher at MERL.