Abstraction is the key to custom processor design and verification, but defining the right language and tool flow is a work in progress.
High-quality RISC-V implementations are becoming more numerous, but it is the extensibility of the architecture that is driving a lot of design activity. The challenge is designing and implementing custom processors without having to re-implement them every time at the register transfer level (RTL)…
To read the full Semiconductor Engineering article by Brian Bailey, click here.
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