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voidUpdatetoday at 7:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's a custom implementation of an existing architecture


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ahartmetztoday at 9:11 AM

It's common to call the instruction set just "architecture", or ISA (instruction set architecture) to be more precise. The implementation is commonly called "microarchitecture".

speed_spreadtoday at 10:22 AM

RV32I doesn't define any architecture, it's just an ISA i.e. a software contract that happens to be implementable in hardware. The CPU could run on outer space goop and still be RV32I.

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