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Re:VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for... by sneak on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:40PM (#23265766)
Are there many applications that would benefit from having it on die versus across a few PCIe lanes? AFAIK putting it on a card would still grant it the same full speed DMA it would have being on-die with the CPU.
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Re:VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for... by wmf on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:47PM (#23265836)
The benefit from putting it on-die is not speed but economy of scale.
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