[Libre-soc-dev] clamping/saturation semantics

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On 12/11/20, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never heard of an ISA that saturates to a different size than the dest
> size,

3 back in this thread, unless i am mistaken, Lauri did exactly that.

* op width 16
* src width 16
* sat depth 8
* dest width 16

if that is in one operation it saves 2 possibly as high as 4 mvs.

l.