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SiFive's P550 Microarchitecture


RISC-V is a relatively young and open source instruction set.

SiFive plays a key role in pushing RISC-V CPUs toward higher performance targets, and occupies a position analogous to that of Arm (the company). The P550’s frontend comes with a parity protected 32 KB 4-way set associative instruction cache, capable of delivering enough bandwidth (12 bytes/cycle) to feed the 3-wide decoder downstream. But either way, memory latency on the EIC7700X is substantially worse than other LPDDR5 setups like Intel’s Meteor Lake or AMD’s Van Gogh (Steam Deck SoC).

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