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/membership/how-to-join/membership-kit-9-27-16-4/>
* OpenPower HDL Mailing list <http://lists.mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/openpower-hdl-cores>
* [[openpower/isatables]]
+* [[openpower/whitepapers]]
* [[openpower/isa]] - pseudo-code extracted from POWER V3.0B PDF spec
* [[openpower/gem5]]
* [[openpower/sv]]