* The traditional `iota` instruction may be
synthesised with an overlapping add, that stacks up incrementally
- and sequentially. Although it requires two instructions, one to
- start the sum-chain, the technique has the advantage of allowing
+ and sequentially. Although it requires two instructions (one to
+ start the sum-chain) the technique has the advantage of allowing
increments by arbitrary amounts, and is not limited to addition,
either.
* Big-integer addition (arbitrary-precision arithmetic) is an
- emergent characteristic the carry-in, carry-out capability of
- Power ISA `adde` instruction. `sv.adde` naturally emerges from the
+ emergent characteristic from the carry-in, carry-out capability of
+ Power ISA `adde` instruction. `sv.adde` as a BigNum add
+ naturally emerges from the
sequential chaining of these scalar instructions.
-*
+* The Condition Register Fields of the Power ISA make a great candidate
+ for use as Predicate Masks, particularly when combined with
+ Vectorised `cmp` and Vectorised `crand`, `crxor` etc.