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I work in software for CPU design/verification. Even here, where in theory there should be a rock-solid spec, there's not. There's a 12,000 page architectural s
by sgerenser 3y ago
I work in software for CPU design/verification. Even here, where in theory there should be a rock-solid spec, there's not. There's a 12,000 page architectural specification, which is very helpful for specifying all the end-user visible state. But the microarchitectural specification is scattered all over different PDFs, visio docs, excel sheets, and sometimes the only spec is the RTL code itself.