RISC-V in Practice (Part 2): Trap Handling & Debugging

Master exception & crash debugging, virtual memory, PLIC/CLIC, and trap analysis using Crash Utility and TRACE32

What you’ll learn
✓ Understand trap operations, including exceptions and interrupts
✓ Analyze crash scenarios and perform systematic debugging
✓ Use Crash Utility and TRACE32 to inspect traps, interrupts, and fault conditions
✓ Understand interrupt controllers, including PLIC and CLIC
✓ Understand virtual memory, MMU behavior, and page table structures

Requirements
● Operating System
● Computer Architecture

Description
Master RISC-V architecture, assembly, calling convention and privilege modes. Debug real RISC-V systems using TRACE32, analyze Linux kernel and bootloader startup code, and prepare confidently for system software engineering interviews.

This lecture is the second part of RISC-V in Practice.

You will learn how to

• Explain trap operations (exceptions and interrupts) clearly in engineering interviews

• Understand interrupt controllers such as PLIC and CLIC in real systems

• Analyze crash scenarios and perform systematic debugging

• Use TRACE32 to inspect traps, interrupts, and fault conditions step by step

• Understand virtual memory, MMU behavior, and page table structures

• Analyze Linux kernel behavior during faults and exception handling with confidence

Why RISC-V Matters for Your Career

RISC-V is rapidly becoming a standard architecture for system and embedded software.

Leading semiconductor companies and startups adopt RISC-V for next-generation products:

• Adopted by leading semiconductor companies (e.g: Qualcomm, NVIDIA, NXP, and Infinion)

• Widely used in embedded and system software products

• Growing rapidly in AI and high-performance computing

• Actively researched in universities and graduate programs

• Increasingly required in system software interviews

RISC-V is becoming a core skill for embedded and system software engineers. Understanding RISC-V architecture and registers is now essential for low-level development. Companies expect engineers to debug RISC-V systems, not just write code. This course teaches real RISC-V internals using hands-on TRACE32 debugging.

If you work close to hardware, learning RISC-V accelerates your career growth.

Who this course is for
■ Embedded engineers using RISC-V for automotive, mobile, or IoT systems.
■ SoC and chipset engineers designing or integrating RISC-V processors.
■ Security engineers analyzing RISC-V binaries and system behavior.
■ Students seeking practical RISC-V architecture fundamentals.

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