[Libre-soc-dev] VISC trademark

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sun, May 12, 2024, 14:37 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> please PUBLISH that discussion


I checked with David first for permission. Here's the relevant section:

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM <djac at redsemiconductor.com> wrote:

> *As for **VISC™ - Versatile Intrinsic Structured Computing*
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> *VISC™ - Versatile Intrinsic Structured Computing* is a hardware concept
> that has nothing to do with SimpleV, and is something Luke never knew
> about, mainly as it was a result of our switch to RISC-V and our dropping
> of SimpleV in favour of a CPU core reconfiguration concept, that tears open
> the CPU core and redesigns its functionality.   It is a clean roomed first
> concepts hardware design that takes more input from Director telephone
> systems than anything else.  Remember my engineering origins.
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> This all happened after Luke ceased to be functional in LibreSOC and RED,
> when he started to live in the van.
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> Luke is confused as *VISC originally stood for Vector Instruction Set
> Computing* which we dropped as its meaning as soon as we dropped SimpleV
> and the whole focus on vectors.
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> Frankly we found something better.
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> We retained the brand word VISC to avoid confusion with customers as we
> had built our marketing around it and as we had not been explicitly telling
> anyone its original meaning up to that point.
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Jacob

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