From: lkcl Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:17:45 +0000 (+0100) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: DRAFT_SVP64_0_1~438 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5fdd9c627a38094bad4a2ea96e69cc876eaaf165;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/openpower/sv.mdwn b/openpower/sv.mdwn index b4176fcd1..f29a9545f 100644 --- a/openpower/sv.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv.mdwn @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Fundamental design principles: (termed "preserving Program Order") * Augments ("tags") existing instructions, providing Vectorisation "context" rather than adding new ones. * Does not modify or deviate from the underlying scalar OpenPOWER ISA unless it provides significant performance or other advantage to do so in the Vector space (dropping XER.SO and OE=1 for example) -* Avoids creating significant dependency hazards, allowing high performance -superscalar microarchitectures to be deployed. +* Designed for Supercomputing: avoids creating significant sequential +dependency hazards, allowing high performance superscalar microarchitectures to be deployed. Advantages of these design principles: