alvieboy Posted June 26, 2016 Report Share Posted June 26, 2016 I was updating my LLVM tree today (long time since I did it) to prepare for XThunderCore SmallISA, and I found a new CPU in there, called "Lanai". A quick search returned some info - this CPU seems to be in development by Google [1][2][3], and it's similar to a microcontroller but aimed at massive parallel computations. Did not have time to explore much - looks like a classical RISC to me ythough. You can get a glimpse of the instruction formats by looking at the LLVM implementation: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Target/Lanai/LanaiInstrFormats.td Any of you ever heard of this, and if any soft-core implementation is available in the wild ? Magnus ? (I will update you guys regarding the XThunderCore SmallISA in a couple of weeks). Alvie [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Lanai-Architecture [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/09/google_processor/ [3] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/095118.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Gassett Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Interesting, I wonder if it is related to Intel's acquisition of Altera. Maybe they are getting ready for FPGA's paired with Intel processors... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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