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@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ the [[sv/av_opcodes]])
 
 # binary and ternary bitops
 
-Similar to FPGA LUTs: for every bit perform a lookup into a table using an 8-8-bit immediate (for the ternary instructions), or in another register (4-bit
+Similar to FPGA LUTs: for two (binary) or three (ternary) inputs take
+bits from each input, concatenate them and
+perform a lookup into a table using an 8-8-bit immediate (for the ternary instructions), or in another register (4-bit
 for the binary instructions).  The binary lookup instructions have CR Field
 lookup variants due to CR Fields being 4 bit.
 
@@ -206,6 +208,9 @@ For bincrlut, `BFA` selects the 4-bit CR Field as the LUT2:
     for i in range(64): 
         RT[i] = lut2(CRs{BFA}, RB[i], RA[i]) 
 
+When Vectorised with SVP64, as usual both source and destination may be
+Vector or Scalar.
+
 *Programmer's note: a dynamic ternary lookup may be synthesised from
 a pair of `binlut` instructions followed by a `ternlogi` to select which
 to merge. Use `nh` to select which nibble to use as the lookup table
@@ -224,6 +229,10 @@ another mode selection would be CRs not Ints.
         a,b,c = CRs[BA][i], CRs[BB][i], CRs[BC][i])
         if mask[i] CRs[BT][i] = lut3(imm, a, b, c)
 
+This instruction is remarkably similar to the existing crops, `crand` etc.
+which have been noted to be a 4-bit (binary) LUT.  In effect `crternlogi`
+is the ternary LUT version of crops, having an 8-bit LUT.
+
 ## crbinlog
 
 With ternary (LUT3) dynamic instructions being very costly,
@@ -238,6 +247,10 @@ and CR Fields being only 4 bit, a binary (LUT2) variant is better
         a,b = CRs[BA][i], CRs[BB][i])
         if mask[i] CRs[BT][i] = lut2(CRs[BC], a, b)
 
+When SVP64 Vectorised any of the 4 operands may be Scalar or
+Vector, including `BC` meaning that multiple different dynamic
+lookups may be performed with a single instruction.
+
 *Programmer's note: just as with binlut and ternlogi, a pair
  of crbinlog instructions followed by a merging crternlogi may
  be deployed to synthesise dynamic ternary (LUT3) CR Field