What Is RISC-V? And Why the Industry Is So Excited About a New Processing Core!

摘要

To start, it is essential to understand that RISC-V is an Instruction Set Architecture, or ISA [1], and not a processor. This means that the community behind RISC-V has put together a description of how a processor design should work, should you choose to base it on their RISC-V ISA. And when we say 'design,' we really do mean creating the processor with all its registers, accumulators, math operations, memory buses, and everything else.