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ET-Minion is designed to deliver the best TeraFLOP per Watt efficiency. That is, this core was designed to achieve the highest floating point throughput with a high degree of energy efficiency.
 
ET-Minion is designed to deliver the best TeraFLOP per Watt efficiency. That is, this core was designed to achieve the highest floating point throughput with a high degree of energy efficiency.
  

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ET-Minion µarch
General Info
Arch TypeCPU
DesignerEsperanto
ManufacturerTSMC
Introduction2018
Process7 nm
Pipeline
TypeSuperscalar, Pipelined
OoOENo
SpeculativeYes
Reg RenamingNo
Instructions
ISARV64
ExtensionsI, M, A, F, D, C
Contemporary
ET-Maxion

ET-Minion is an energy-efficient RISC-V microarchitecture designed by Esperanto. ET-Minion is also sold as a licensable IP core.

Process Technology[edit]

ET-Minion is designed and optimized for TSMC's 7 nm process although it may be back-ported to older nodes in the future.

Architecture[edit]

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ET-Minion is designed to deliver the best TeraFLOP per Watt efficiency. That is, this core was designed to achieve the highest floating point throughput with a high degree of energy efficiency.

  • In-order pipeline
    • Multi-thread
  • Integrated vector floating point unit
    • Extension for Tensor instructions
    • Extension for graphics operations
  • Support for hardware accelerators

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codenameET-Minion +
designerEsperanto +
first launched2018 +
full page nameesperanto/microarchitectures/et-minion +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
instruction set architectureRV64 +
manufacturerTSMC +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
nameET-Minion +
process7 nm (0.007 μm, 7.0e-6 mm) +