The RISC-V instruction set architecture optimization and fixed-point math library co-design
Meng Liu · 2021
In the field of IoT, RISC-V as an open-source instruction set shows great application potential. On the one hand, this is due to the low cost brought by the hardware open source trend. On the other hand, the modular instruction set architecture (ISA) design brings agile design ideas, and designers can pay more attention to the collaborative design of key ISA and software libraries. However, by analyzing the underlying mathematical assembly library, we found that the current RISC-V standard instruction set still has room for performance improvement for lightweight control mathematical operations. In this paper, we introduce a set of custom RISC-V ISA designs for fixed-point math libraries and perform performance evaluations to demonstrate the optimization results.