[HN Gopher] NASA Uses RISC-V Vector Spec to Soup Up Space Computers ___________________________________________________________________ NASA Uses RISC-V Vector Spec to Soup Up Space Computers Author : JoachimS Score : 32 points Date : 2022-11-22 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.eetimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.eetimes.com) | hajile wrote: | NASA probably stands to save a lot of duplicated development time | if they could use just one ISA from their tiny MCUs to large HPC | chips. It would also help with vendor dependency. If a vendor | doesn't work out, just move to another RISC-V vendor. | | Why not ARM then? Because NASA can use their own implementations | in FPGA without paying a bunch of extra money for the privilege. | christkv wrote: | Are these hardened cpus? Do they run two in parallel executing | the same code as previous cpus? | swamp40 wrote: | _Soup up originated in the U.S. in the late 19th century, though | it wasn 't widely used until the 20th century. Its exact origins | are unknown, but it could be short for supercharge, or it might | come from a horse-racing slang term for injecting horses with | narcotics meant to make them run faster._ | | Interesting. I never saw it spelled like that before. Looks like | no one knows how it should be spelled, so all variations are | fine. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-22 23:00 UTC)