From 2ddcbda7ea82d4b2731b7247259fd03be1b80f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:05:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/rfc/001.mdwn | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/rfc/001.mdwn b/openpower/sv/rfc/001.mdwn index bcf7cf4a1..c6fb3de1f 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/rfc/001.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/rfc/001.mdwn @@ -13,10 +13,16 @@ Links * * -# Introduction +# Introduction to Simple-V This proposal is to extend the Power ISA with an Abstract RISC-Paradigm Vectorisation Concept that may be applied to **all and any** suitable Scalar instructions, present and future, in the Scalar Power ISA. **It is not a Vector ISA and does not add Vector opcodes of any kind**. +A variant of Simple-V was originally invented in 1994 by Peter Hsu +(Architect of the MIPS R8000) but was dropped as MIPS did not have an +Out-of-Order Microarchitecture. + +# Resources + -- 2.30.2