Sargantana: A 1 GHz+ in-order RISC-V processor with SIMD vector extensions in 22nm FD-SOI

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Abstract
The RISC-V open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has proven to be a solid alternative to licensed ISAs. In the past 5 years, a plethora of industrial and academic cores and accelerators have been developed implementing this open ISA. In this paper, we present Sargantana, a 64-bit processor based on RISC-V that implements the RV64G ISA, a subset of the vector instructions extension (RVV 0.7.1), and custom application-specific instructions. Sargantana features a highly optimized 7-stage pipeline implementing out-of-order write-back, register renaming, and a non-blocking memory pipeline. Moreover, Sar-gantana features a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) unit that accelerates domain-specific applications. Sargantana achieves a 1.26 GHz frequency in the typical corner, and up to 1.69 GHz in the fast corner using 22nm FD-SOI commercial technology. As a result, Sargantana delivers a 1.77× higher Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) than our previous 5-stage in-order DVINO core, reaching 2.44 CoreMark/MHz. Our core design delivers comparable or even higher performance than other state-of-the-art academic cores performance under Autobench EEMBC benchmark suite. This way, Sargantana lays the foundations for future RISC-V based core designs able to meet industrial-class performance requirements for scientific, real-time, and high-performance computing applications.
CitationSoria, V. [et al.]. Sargantana: A 1 GHz+ in-order RISC-V processor with SIMD vector extensions in 22nm FD-SOI. A: Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design. "2022 25th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2022: 31 August-2 September 2022, Maspalomas, Spain: proceedings". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022, p. 254-261. ISBN 978-1-6654-7404-7. DOI 10.1109/DSD57027.2022.00042.
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