By: Konrad Schwarz (no.spam.delete@this.no.spam), November 6, 2019 7:03 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 6, 2019 1:21 am wrote:
> My guess is that embedded vendors will go wild on extensions because it makes sense to
> have specialized hardware for specialized use-cases, but we won't see that many for general
> purpose cores. That might hamper general purpose cores in the long run but that's the
> price to pay if you want binary compatibility and reasonable software complexity.
Easy to use instruction extensions was Tensilica's shtick. Now they are part of Cadence.
> My guess is that embedded vendors will go wild on extensions because it makes sense to
> have specialized hardware for specialized use-cases, but we won't see that many for general
> purpose cores. That might hamper general purpose cores in the long run but that's the
> price to pay if you want binary compatibility and reasonable software complexity.
Easy to use instruction extensions was Tensilica's shtick. Now they are part of Cadence.
