[Libre-soc-dev] snitch core

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 21:12 lkcl <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On October 24, 2021 3:11:59 AM UTC, Jacob Lifshay <
> programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 19:36 Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
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> >> found this interesting paper:
> >> https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10143
> >>
> >> apparently they built a 1-stage-pipeline single-cycle core that is
> >> extremely energy efficient.
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> ooo nice find, that's going on the resources page and when not 5am on the
> notes/discussion for the 22m grant
>

the unexpected part is where I found it: google news linked to a ieee(?
could be misremembering) article about it.

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> >They also developed a FP instruction sequence repetition extension that
> >reminds me of SV's vertical first mode.
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> the idea came from mitch alsup's vector extension in myisa 66000.  florian
> zaruba. where have i seen that name before... eth zurich, pulp platform,
> ariane i think.
>

yup, snitch is a pulp-platform cpu.

Jacob