From: lkcl Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:32:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: convert-csv-opcode-to-binary~906 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a43ba850d8cca1bf21cb20f71725b6e4e933be36;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/openpower/sv/overview.mdwn b/openpower/sv/overview.mdwn index da1ba712d..0a93bd1c9 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/overview.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/overview.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This document provides an overview and introduction as to why SV (a Cray-style V SIMD, the primary method for easy parallelism of the past 30 years in Computer Architectures, is [known to be harmful](https://www.sigarch.org/simd-instructions-considered-harmful/). SIMD provides a seductive simplicity that is easy to implement in hardware. Even with predication added, SIMD only becomes more and more problematic with each power of two SIMD width increase introduced through an ISA revision. The opcode proliferation, at O(N^6), inexorably spirals out of control in the ISA, detrimentally impacting the hardware, the software and the compilers. -Cray-style variable-length Vectors on the other hand result in stunningly elegant and small loops, with no alarmingly high setup and cleanup code, where at the hardware level the microarchitecture may execute from one element right the way through to tens of thousands at a time, yet the executable remains exactly the same and the ISA remains clear, true to the RISC paradigm, and clean. Unlike in SIMD, powers of two limitations are not involved in either the hardware or in the assembly code. +Cray-style variable-length Vectors on the other hand result in stunningly elegant and small loops, exceptionally high data throughput per instruction, with no alarmingly high setup and cleanup code, where at the hardware level the microarchitecture may execute from one element right the way through to tens of thousands at a time, yet the executable remains exactly the same and the ISA remains clear, true to the RISC paradigm, and clean. Unlike in SIMD, powers of two limitations are not involved in either the hardware or in the assembly code. SimpleV takes the Cray style Vector principle and applies it in the abstract to a Scalar ISA, in the process allowing register file size increases using "tagging" (similar to how x86 originally extended registers from 32 to 64 bit).