Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive

Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by hajile on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:24AM (#37998856)

Personally, I like the idea of doubling the instruction length every time -- 16, 32, 64, 128, etc. There's a big use case on the longer instruction end for VLIW/DSP/GPU applications.

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Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by Pet_Ant on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:43PM (#38004343)

AFAIK you want short instructions for VLIW because you want to pack multiple of them into a single word.

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