[libre-riscv-dev] multi issue

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

Ok so I have a partially tested instruction queue that I plan to drop
uniform instructions into, the actual one used for RISCV will need length
decoding.

The queue can take *multiple* entries in and out per clock which is crucial
to have for multi issue

When turned into a RISCV queue the input side will be a fixed width and
fixed fraction of a cache line.

Maybe, to not waste too much power in terms of routing, it would help to be
able to specify that the Q have an additional offset argument, saying where
the start is to be copied from.

Then it would be possible to throw say a quarter or a half of a cache line
at the Q, and tell it to ignore the first N halfwords.

Without that trick, the routing *outside* the Q becomes an N to M way
multiplexer.

With it, the routing is just an N to 1 multiplexer.

This is an extraordinary amount of detail needed for something that you
would think, in software alone, would be so simple and straightforward!

L.


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