Microwatt Microarchitecture by Paul Mackerras

Paul Mackerras

https://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/149/

Microwatt is a new open-source soft-core implementation of the Power ISA written in VHDL. It has been developed from scratch in the last six months by Anton Blanchard and others, initially to provide an example implementation to accompany the announcement by IBM last August that it was opening the Power ISA. This talk will examine the microarchitecture of the Microwatt core in some detail and discuss how implementation choices were affected by the specific details of the Power ISA.

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Mon Jan 13 14:10:00 2020 at Room 7