From 846289e67d131376bdd63ee1c923023997ee38a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 14:14:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index 4d8f5a817..a6beeb2c5 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -552,9 +552,19 @@ The similarity to ZOLC should not have gone unnoticed: where ZOLC has nested conditional for-loops Extra-V appears to have just the one conditional for-loop, but the key strategically-crucial part of this multi-faceted puzzle is that due to the deterministic and -coherent nature of Extra-V, the processing of the loops is not -done close to the CPU it is +coherent nature of Extra-V, the processing of the loops, which +requires a tiny processor, is not +done close to the CPU at all: it is *embedded right next to the memory*. +The similarity to the D-Matrix Systolic Array Processing, Aspex Microelectronics +Array-String Processing, and Elixent 2D Array Processing, should +also not have gone unnoticed. All of these solutions utilised +or utilise +a more comprehensive Turing-complete von-Neumann "Management Core" +to coordinate data passed in and out of PEs: none of them had or +had something +as powerful as OpenCAPI as part of that picture. + **Snitch** -- 2.30.2