is the *Vectorised* Branch-Conditional that is augmented, not Scalar
Branch.
-# Compliancy Levels
+# Extension Levels
Simple-V has been subdivided into levels akin to the Power ISA Compliancy
-Levels. For now let us call them "SV Compliancy Levels" to differentiate
+Levels. For now let us call them "SV Extension Levels" to differentiate
the two. The reason for the
-[SV Compliancy Levels](https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/compliancy_levels/)
+[SV Extension Levels](https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/compliancy_levels/)
is the same as for the
Power ISA Compliancy Levels (SFFS, SFS): to not overburden implementors
with features that they do not need. *There is no dependence between
-the two types of Compliancy Levels*. The resources below therefore are
-not all required for all SV Compliancy Levels but they are all required
+the two types of Levels*. The resources below therefore are
+not all required for all SV Extension Levels but they are all required
to be reserved.
# Binary Interoperability
common **Scalar** micro-architectures. Finite State Machine (for
ultra-low-resource and Mission-Critical), In-order single-issue, all the
way through to Great-Big Out-of-Order Superscalar Multi-Issue. The
-SV Compliancy Levels specifically recognise these differing scenarios.
+SV Extension Levels specifically recognise these differing scenarios.
SIMD back-end ALUs particularly those with element-level predicate
masks may be exploited to good effect with very little additional
Multi-Issue Out-of-Order is the recommended (but not mandatory) Scalar
Micro-architecture.
-The only major concern is in the upper SV Compliancy Levels: the Hazard
+The only major concern is in the upper SV Extension Levels: the Hazard
Management for increased number of Scalar Registers to 128 (in current
versions) but given that IBM POWER9/10 has VSX register numbering 64,
and modern GPUs have 128, 256 amd even 512 registers this was deemed