Libre-SOC OpenPOWER ISA WG
Steward ISA extension proposals through OpenPOWER External RFC Process
The Libre-SOC project has developed Draft SVP64 (a Vector Extension for the Power ISA), containing around a hundred new Draft instructions that dramatically improves the Supercomputing-class Power ISA. It also produced a Simulator, thousands of unit tests and over 350 pages of documentation. What we could not do however was submit a Specification to the OpenPOWER ISA Working Group - because the ISA WG was still in the process of being ratified. That has now been done, and we need to begin the formal process of writing up "Requests For Change" and submitting them. The end result will be an extremely powerful Vector ISA suitable for use in Digitally-Sovereign end-user products.
- The project's own website: https://libre-soc.org/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg/
This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.
