A 13-year-old boy, Nicholas Sharkey, recently participated in a 5-day RISC-V seminar, and completed the subject within the specified time, and built a RISC-V kernel by himself .
The seminar is called MYTH, "Microprocessor for You in Thirty Hours". MYTH is aimed at college students and developers. The goal is to enable participants to learn RISC-V and build their own RISC-V CPU cores. Because it is mainly for college students, all construction cycles usually follow the courses of college students and last one or two semesters .
When 13-year-old Nicholas Sharkey introduced himself in the seminar chat forum, Steve Hoover, one of the organizers of MYTH, expressed his surprise and was worried about whether Nicholas Sharkey could keep up with the 5-day course. The last day of the course is to examine the participants' absorption of the knowledge of the previous four days, and ask students to perform CPU pipeline processing to deal with various pipeline hazard/interlocking (pipeline hazard). The result is that Nicholas Sharkey has completed and built his own RISC-V CPU core, and he will receive the corresponding certificate.
Steve Hoover commented on Nicholas Sharkey, saying that he understands RISC-V ISA and compilation tools, knows circuit design, and created a computer circuit pipeline. His first RISC-V CPU also showed signs of normal operation, which is huge success. In addition, Nicholas Sharkey has also won prizes in spelling competitions and math competitions, and is an expert in Rubik's Cube.
