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Building an Order RISC-V CPU from scratch

8 points by random__duck ago | 4 comments

Joker_vD |next [-]

For a general reference, here [0] (PDF) is a somewhat detailed description (that is, it actually discusses how this particular implementation solves the problems that arise before it) of an out-of-order implementation for a simplistic RISC ISA. Suffice to say, it doesn't really have all that much in common with the classical 5-stage RISC pipeline.

[0] https://user.eng.umd.edu/~blj/risc/RiSC-oo.1.pdf

OhMeadhbh |next |previous [-]

I'm often dismissive of RISC-V posts, but I really loved this one. It does a great job of presenting the material: good graphics, readable text and references at the bottom of the text. I've been focused on smaller CPUs on durt cheap process nodes, but this was great.

Narishma |next |previous [-]

Title should be "Out of Order RISC-V core from scratch - Specula". Don't know why it was changed.

artemonster |previous [-]

Is there an open bluespec sim?