Recently, under the collaborative efforts of Dalian University of Technology, Allwinner Technology, and Alibaba T-head, the “National First-Class Undergraduate Course” in “Embedded Software Design” recognized by the Ministry of Education has incorporated RISC-V teaching content and uses the “D1-H Nezha Development Board” as the designated experimental platform for RISC-V architecture. Collaborating with various universities to support the cultivation of technological talents is also one of Allwinner’s key tasks in promoting the RISC-V ecosystem and integrating with partners.
Professor Lai Xiaocheng’s “Embedded Software Design” course was selected as a “National First-Class Undergraduate Course” by the Ministry of Education in 2020, becoming a benchmark course for embedded education in China. The course has been offered nine times on the “China University MOOC” platform, with a total enrollment exceeding 40,000 students, and has been well received by students. The RISC-V architecture experimental platform used in the course, the “D1-H Nezha Development Board,” is paired with the Allwinner D1-H processor, which is designed based on Alibaba T-head’s C906 and Allwinner’s self-developed core functional IP, featuring high integration and rich audio and video interfaces. On the software side, the D1-H is officially adapted to the mainline Linux 5.4 kernel and also supports Allwinner’s self-developed system Tina, which is deeply developed for the smart hardware market, effectively supporting Professor Lai’s experimental teaching based on RISC-V and helping students gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of RISC-V architecture and applications.
“With the changes in the international and domestic environment, universities, as educational institutions, have the responsibility to introduce students to various types of technical solutions, guiding them to analyze the specific scenarios applicable to different solutions, thereby cultivating their comprehensive design and innovation capabilities. Based on this consideration, with the strong support of Allwinner and T-head, we have for the first time adopted the RISC-V architecture development board—the “Allwinner D1-H Nezha” as experimental equipment in the “Embedded Software Design” course this year, allowing students to understand diverse technologies during their studies and contribute to the future national technological development,” said Professor Lai Xiaocheng, head of the Department of Intelligent Systems Technology at Dalian University of Technology and the main lecturer of the “Embedded Software Design” course.Huang Shaorui, head of the RISC-V technology axis at Allwinner Technology and general manager of Allwinner Online, stated: “Professor Lai Xiaocheng has been deeply engaged in teaching and research for many years, focusing on creating high-quality ‘golden courses’ and emphasizing teaching innovation, ensuring that the teaching content is always aligned with advanced industry directions; this upgrade of Professor Lai’s embedded software design course to incorporate RISC-V architecture teaching content greatly promotes the cultivation of RISC-V industry talents and teaching and research innovation; talent and innovation are crucial aspects of Allwinner’s ecosystem construction, and we will take this cooperation as an opportunity to deepen and expand cooperation areas, further strengthen the integration of industry and education with universities, and explore an innovative path for talent cultivation through industry-education integration.”Technological talents are the carriers of technology and the foundation of innovation. For many years, Allwinner Technology has closely collaborated with ecosystem partners to accelerate the implementation of RISC-V in talent cultivation, creating many excellent results in teaching tools innovation, research paper innovation, and technology competition innovation; in the future, Allwinner will continue to leverage its advantages in RISC-V ecosystem construction, making application implementation scalable, allowing industry innovation to flourish, and promoting the vigorous development of the RISC-V ecosystem.About Professor Lai Xiaocheng and the “Embedded Software Design” CourseProfessor Lai Xiaocheng is the head of the Department of Intelligent Systems Technology at Dalian University of Technology, a master’s supervisor, and the head of the teaching supervision team at the Development Zone Campus. The “Embedded Software Design” course was approved as a “National First-Class Undergraduate Course” by the Ministry of Education in 2020 and was first offered on the “China University MOOC (National Quality Course School Platform)” on April 23, 2018. This course is a professional direction course for disciplines such as computer science and software engineering and is an important course with strong practical and technical aspects. (Source: Baidu Encyclopedia)