While I share your passion, there's still a front end. The front end vs back end of a cpu core exists as long as the logic for decoding an instruction is separa

While I share your passion, there's still a front end. The front end vs back end of a cpu core exists as long as the logic for decoding an instruction is separate from that of executing. In an AVR core, the "instruction decode" and "instruction register" blocks are the front end, and the ALU is the backend. The first image result for "msp430 cpu core block diagram" for me was [1] which has the first block saying "front end". So like I get it but just because we work on the smallest cores doesn't mean they're alien tech compared to the newest Neoverse or AVX-512 monsters. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ch-Srinivas/publication/346975203/figure/fig5/AS:968568296439810@1607936085154/MSP430-core-block-diagram-4.jpg https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ch-Srinivas/publication...