Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive
by oconnor663 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:15PM
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> The C extension was an after thought
I understand that "afterthought" can be more of a subjective comment on the design than a concrete claim about the order of events, but still I'll quote directly from the RISC-V Instruction Set Manual:
> Given the code size and energy savings of a compressed format, we wanted to build in support for a compressed format to the ISA encoding scheme rather than adding this as an afterthought
I understand that "afterthought" can be more of a subjective comment on the design than a concrete claim about the order of events, but still I'll quote directly from the RISC-V Instruction Set Manual:
> Given the code size and energy savings of a compressed format, we wanted to build in support for a compressed format to the ISA encoding scheme rather than adding this as an afterthought