From 4f214d460dcb1b5af43f7611b8773aeec91581c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dhower-qc <134728312+dhower-qc@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 12:05:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Create 2024-09-05.adoc Signed-off-by: dhower-qc <134728312+dhower-qc@users.noreply.github.com> --- minutes/2024-09-05.adoc | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 minutes/2024-09-05.adoc diff --git a/minutes/2024-09-05.adoc b/minutes/2024-09-05.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ab69c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/minutes/2024-09-05.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ += Scalar Efficiency SIG 8/5/2024 + +== Attendees + + * Christian Herber (NXP) + * Derek Hower (Qualcomm) + * David Weaver (Akeana) + * Al Martin (Akeana) + * Mehul Shah (Rivos) + * Ana Pazos (Qualcomm) + * Punit Agrawal (Bytedance) + * Olaf Bernstein (Individual) + * Allen Baum (Esperanto) + * Ved Shanbhogue (Rivos) + * Greg Favor (Ventana) + +== Topics + + * 48-bit instructions. Olaf suggested defining new 32-bit instructions in the 48-bit instruction opcode space. + ** Christian pointed out 48-bit space may not be as free as it seems, since it may get used with large immediate instructions + ** Derek observed that this would buy at most one extra major opcode int 32-bit space + * Allen suggested prefix instructions to extend immediate of following instruction + ** Requires extra CSR register that is saved/restored + ** May have implementations costs (adds implicit source and dest to following instruction) + *** ...unless you can gaurantee neither an exception or interrupt can happen between prefix + * Derek pointed out that Qualcomm has released a custom RISC-V microcontroller spec + ** Qualcomm will release LLVM implementation for instructions, which SE Sig can use. + * Punit will send out results from load/store pair performance on silicon.