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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by baybal2 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:19AM (#24878212)
Not only the radio is software, cores themselves, as I understand, are not hard macro, and I find it more surprising that such very generic synthesized chip is not an even bigger power hog.
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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by monocasa on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:47PM (#24881494)
Just throwing the entire design at the synthesizer these days seems to be pretty close to a collection of hand laid out hard macros. The synthesizer being a lot more aggressive about optimizing out signals that leave the macro (and downstream uses of those signals, so those global optimizations that are hard for a human to see) seems to make up for it's deficiencies with perfect local layout.
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Re:BL602/BL604 RISC-V WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 SoC will sell a... by rowanG077 on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:24PM (#24901634)
Wait what? You are telling me the ESP's are actually FPGA's with a preconfigured core?
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