[For new entrants] - Still not late to start RISC-V You might have been observing every third news in hardware design is about RISC-V. The keyword RISC-V is the most trending in the digital design domain. Now for students, RISC-V is not a processor, it's an architecture (like a language) of a computer. Just like every state has a regional language, similarly, every computer has an architecture This is just the start of RISC-V. Many educational institutes that have been teaching electronics have decided to include RISC-V in their curriculum. There is a mention of RISC-V in every VSD workshop, VSD project and VSD tapeout program using open-source and proprietary tools. For new entrants, if you are looking for a RISC-V introduction and its need in the current electronics engineering curriculum, you should definitely try out the below workshop https://www.vlsisystemdesign.com/riscv-based-myth/ This workshop starts with an electronic design like an embedded board and explains the need of RISC-V and its architecture using a basic software assembly language lab, and finally, you would build your own small RISC-V processor which you can test on an FPGA. Isn't that cool? Moreover, this workshop will be available at a 55% discounted price for this time, thereby making it affordable for students. Pre-requisites - 2-input MUX knowledge (That's it). This is very cool