Building an OOO RISC-V CPU from scratch

(prawns.dev)

19 points | by random__duck 4 days ago

4 comments

  • Narishma 1 hour ago
    Title should be "Out of Order RISC-V core from scratch - Specula". Don't know why it was changed.
  • Joker_vD 56 minutes ago
    For a general reference, here [0] (PDF) is a somewhat detailed description (that is, it actually discusses how this particular implementation solves the problems that arise before it) of an out-of-order implementation for a simplistic RISC ISA. Suffice to say, it doesn't really have all that much in common with the classical 5-stage RISC pipeline.

    [0] https://user.eng.umd.edu/~blj/risc/RiSC-oo.1.pdf

  • OhMeadhbh 57 minutes ago
    I'm often dismissive of RISC-V posts, but I really loved this one. It does a great job of presenting the material: good graphics, readable text and references at the bottom of the text. I've been focused on smaller CPUs on durt cheap process nodes, but this was great.
  • artemonster 1 hour ago
    Is there an open bluespec sim?