Poznan Open Source Meetup #9

18:00-18:30 - Registration & coffee

18:30-20:15 - Talks and Q&A

20:15-23:00 - Afterparty

1. The bottom of the stack - a dive into software execution on RISC-V CPUs; Michal Czyz, Antmicro

With the emergence of open source ISA standards, RISC-V CPUs have been increasingly becoming a considerable part of the consumer electronics market, reaching over 10 billion cores in the recent months. Tens of thousands of engineers are working on RISC-V initiatives globally, including the Engineering Team at Antmicro who have been developing a Physical Memory Protection solution for the open source CPUs.

In this presentation, we will provide a brief overview of RISC-V CPUs, explain internal CPU operation by tracing an execution of a simple program, and present how software security concerns can be addressed using the introduced PMP solution. The talk is tailored to software developers who would like to dive deeper into the hardware-specific aspect of software execution that they rely on daily.

2. Working towards the perfect keyboard one open source project at a time; Jakub Jatczak, Antmicro

Current fast-paced advancements in the industry accustomed us to a constant evolution of the tools at our hands. However, in this landscape of ever-changing technology, there are some things that remain constant. Without doubt, some of these constants have been perfected to the point where any change would be counterproductive, but the keyboard is not one of them.

During this presentation, we will take a close look at the standard keyboard and its shortcomings. We will then go through some of the most popular open source projects and their approach to solving these problems.