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Academics, doing useless stuff just to publish. This takes more space than 6502 or Z80 while also being slower.

• vardump 4y ago
  µC performance doesn't always matter. Sometimes you need something that takes very little FPGA or ASIC space. This leaves more space for the actually important stuff. When performance does matter, you just use something speedier. More choice is good.
  • rasz 4y ago
    This is bigger than 8bit cores.
    • vardump 4y ago
      SERV seems to be very comparable to a 6502 in size in terms of ASIC gates required. On an FPGA, SERV's implementation seems to be a times smaller.
      • rasz 4y ago
        if you ignore register file
        • vardump 4y ago
          True, unless you use a reduced one.
• JoachimS 4y ago
  Olof Kindgren is not in academia. He is an embedded consultant working for Qamcom, a consultancy in Sweden, USA etc. https://www.qamcom.com https://www.qamcom.com And as he points out in the presentation, SERV is used in several (and growing) real world systems as a flexible control plane in ASICs, FPGAs etc.