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2026-08-08 10:33 UTC
@CyReVolt@mastodon.social That would make sense, but instruction decoding seems to use a PLA in the RISC-I instead of a net of combinational logic gates (see p. 6 of [1]). Using redundant opcode encodings would then not result in a reduction of chips space, I think.
[1] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1983/Archive/CSD-83-135.pdf
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