Some considerable care has been taken to ensure that Decoding may be
performed in a strict forward-pipelined fashion that, aside from changes in
-SVSTATE and aside from the initial 32/64 length detection (also kept simple),
+SVSTATE (necessarily cached and propagated alongside MSR and PC)
+and aside from the initial 32/64 length detection (also kept simple),
a Multi-Issue Engine would have no difficulty (performance maximisable).
-With the initial partial RM identification
-decode performed above the Vector operations may easily be passed downstream
+With the initial partial RM Mode type-identification
+decode performed above the Vector operations may then
+easily be passed downstream in a fully forward-progressive piplined fashion
to independent parallel units for further analysis.
**Vectorised Branch-Conditional**
and restoring of LR and SVLR may be deferred until the final decision
as to whether to branch. In this way `sv.bclrl` does not corrupt `LR`.
-**SVP64Single**
+# SVP64Single 24-bits
The `SVP64-Single` 24-bit encoding focusses primarily on ensuring that
all 128 Scalar registers are fully accessible, provides element-width
32-bit opcode being added. The downside: such Scalar operations are
all 64-bit encodings.
+As SVP64Single is new and still under development, space for it may
+instead be `RESERVED`. It is however necessary as there are limitations
+in SVP64 Register numbering, particularly for 4-operand instructions,
+that can only be easily overcome by SVP64Single.
+
# Vertical-First Mode
This is a Computer Science term that needed first to be invented.
There exists only one other Vertical-First Vector ISA in the world:
-Mitch Alsup's VVM Extension for the 66000. Several people have
+Mitch Alsup's VVM Extension for the 66000, details of which may be
+obtained publicly on `comp.arch` or directly from Mitch Alsup under
+NDA. Several people have
independently derived Vertical-First: it simply did not have a
Computer Science term associated with it.
of Mitch Alsup's VVM).
* Horizontal-First (also known as Cray-style Vectors) progresses
through **registers** (or, register *elements* in traditional
- Cray-Vector ISAs) in full before moving on to the next instruction.
+ Cray-Vector ISAs) in full before moving on to the next *instruction*.
Mitch Alsup's VVM Extension is a form of hardware-level auto-vectorisation
based around Zero-Overhead Loops. Using a Variable-Length Encoding all