implementation would require an intrusive fundamental overhaul of the
Power ISA.
-*If not done as carefully as SVP64, the addition of any other Scalable
-Vector Extension would require a significant number of opcodes, putting
-further pressure on Major Opcode space which was never designed with
-Scalable Vectors in mind in the first place. Contrast with RISC-V which was
-designed over a 7 year period with Cray-style Vectors right from the start.*
-
It is extremely important to think of Simple-V as a 2-Dimensional ISA:
instructions vertical and registers horizontal otherwise it will be
difficult to grasp and appreciate its RISC simplicity.
same binaries *(this is known to be extremely important to the Power ISA
ecosystem)*.
+*If not done as carefully as SVP64, the addition of any other Scalable
+Vector Extension would require a significant number of opcodes, putting
+further pressure on Major Opcode space which was never designed with
+Scalable Vectors in mind in the first place. Contrast with RISC-V which was
+designed over a 7 year period with Cray-style Vectors right from the start.*
+
Simple-V is **not RISC-V and is not RISC-V Vectors**.
[NEC SX Aurora](https://sxauroratsubasa.sakura.ne.jp/documents/guide/pdfs/Aurora_ISA_guide.pdf),
[RVV](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.adoc), [Simple-V](https://ftp.libre-soc.org/simple_v_spec.pdf) and