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_chris_
12y ago
Hmmm, I actually have no idea! Chisel has a google group that you can post any comments or questions you have (chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu). If you wait a week, we should have something similar up at (riscv.org) too. Chisel has an occasional
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Hi, are you talking about the Sodor cores? I wrote those and wouldn't mind answering any questions about RISC-V or Chisel. Regarding Sodor, they're designed to be instructional (we use them on our undergrads at Berkeley) and open
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RISC-V started off from a modified MIPS ISA, but we frankly ran out of opcode space. We needed 64b, IEEE floating point, and a ton of opcode space to explore new accelerator and vector ISA extensions. Even the smallest changes to MIPS to cl