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ET-Minion - Microarchitectures - Esperanto
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| ET-Minion µarch | |
| General Info | |
| Arch Type | CPU |
| Designer | Esperanto |
| Manufacturer | TSMC |
| Introduction | 2018 |
| Process | 7 nm |
| Pipeline | |
| Type | Superscalar, Pipelined |
| OoOE | No |
| Speculative | Yes |
| Reg Renaming | No |
| Instructions | |
| ISA | RV64 |
| Extensions | I, 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
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
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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
Block Diagram
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Memory Hierarchy
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Facts about "ET-Minion - Microarchitectures - Esperanto"
| codename | ET-Minion + |
| designer | Esperanto + |
| first launched | 2018 + |
| full page name | esperanto/microarchitectures/et-minion + |
| instance of | microarchitecture + |
| instruction set architecture | RV64 + |
| manufacturer | TSMC + |
| microarchitecture type | CPU + |
| name | ET-Minion + |
| process | 7 nm (0.007 μm, 7.0e-6 mm) + |