[libre-riscv-dev] sum-addressed decoder

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Fri May 1 20:09:19 BST 2020


On Friday, May 1, 2020, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this interesting idea:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum-addressed_decoder
> The patents appear to have expired.


"If the reader feels that this was an inordinate amount of brain-twisting
work for a three gate improvement in a multi-cycle critical path, then the
reader has a better appreciation for the level to which modern CPUs are
optimized."

hilarious :)

could you raise a bugreport for it, as a future enhancement? it would be
good to look at this later

l.



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