Libre-SOC is basing its [[Simple-V Vectorisation|sv]] CPU extensions on OpenPOWER because it wants to be able to specify a machine that can be completely trusted, and because OpenPOWER, thanks to IBM's involvement,
is designed for high performance.
+See wikipedia page
+<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA>
+
+very useful resource describing all assembly instructions
+<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=reference-instruction-set>
+
# Evaluation
EULA released! looks good.
+<https://openpowerfoundation.org/final-draft-of-the-power-isa-eula-released/>
-Links
+# Links
* OpenPOWER Membership
<https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/how-to-join/membership-kit-9-27-16-4/>
* Opcode 4 Signal Processing (SPE)
* Opcode 4 Vectors or Opcode 60 VSX (600+ additional instructions)
* Avoidable legacy opcodes
+* SIMD. it's awful.
# SimpleV