On 12/29/2017 12:53 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:33 PM, zap <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are the shakti processors arm based > HELL no!!! why do you think they tried to bribe him to shut the > project down!! oops did i mention that on a public mailing list? > mwahahaa Interesting, never knew that. and yeah, probably not the best idea but meh... > >> for the architecture or some new >> architecture or a different one. > RISC-V. they are however doing it as a complete reimplementation, > using a design system that's based on.... Haskell :) it's like > myhdl.org (which is python) except it's Haskell -> Verilog. the > advantage of that is that it's REALLY quick to write stuff in... and > it has the advantage of being *formally mathematically provable*. > unlike Chisel, which is what the rocket-chip is based on. > > also they're going for an 8 stage pipeline not 5, so the max speed is > around 2.5ghz where rocket-chip gets around 1.5ghz in 40nm, > > http://bitbucket.org/casl > Risc-V hmm... interesting. I know arm is based off of a Risc chip so that's why I wondered...
Any idea when these processors will be sold? >> I believe you said the M class is supposed to be less than 1W. Which >> sounds absolutely insane. Dunno how they will do that, but it looks >> interesting especially considering the blazing speed it says on the charts. > 120mW per core it's easily achievable. i mentioned that the EOMA68 > power budget is 2.5 watts and madhu laughed: do the math, you can get > 16 SMP cores into 2.5 watts :) Wow... that's freakin awesome. Any idea when such a processor will be implemented into the eoma68 standard? > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
