From 2682b60795fdc58a1665159e90bbf9fc3f307580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:58:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn b/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn index 3766c12a8..97bf4d4c3 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ Links: * [[discussion]] * -* conflictd example * * * specialist vector ops @@ -14,12 +13,12 @@ Links: * [[simple_v_extension/specification/bitmanip]] previous version, contains pseudocode for sof, sif, sbf -The core OpenPOWER ISA was designed as scalar: SV provides a level of abstraction to add variable-length element-independent parallelism. +The core Power ISA was designed as scalar: SV provides a level of abstraction to add variable-length element-independent parallelism. Therefore there are not that many cases where *actual* Vector instructions are needed. If they are, they are more "assistance" functions. Two traditional Vector instructions were initially considered (conflictd and vmiota) however they may be synthesised -from existing SVP64 instructions and have been moved to [[discussion]] +from existing SVP64 instructions: details in [[discussion]] Notes: -- 2.30.2