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Lovely paper. How about the silicon? By now we've seen quite few more-or-less open microarchitecture designs (with various ISAs), and it sure must be nice to
by clarry 11y ago
Lovely paper.
How about the silicon? By now we've seen quite few more-or-less open microarchitecture designs (with various ISAs), and it sure must be nice to dream up a new, lean ISA on paper, even simulate it in software.. but I would like to run Doom on it. And Quack. And not just in a simulation.
What are the chances that I can actually get to play with this design as I can with an AVR microcontroller on a breadboard or some ARM chip in one of these cheap evaluation boards? In, say, the following 5 or 10 years? Is it just a dream?
Will it be like the CPUs in the Lemote computers? Way underpowered, even compared to a high end smartphone chip, and power hungry enough to require a noisy fan?
- ac29 11y agolowRISC [0] is designing a RISC-V chip and intending to finish tape out this year. [0] http://www.lowrisc.org/ http://www.lowrisc.org/