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minus-squaredragontamer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months ago in this case the instruction set is extremely small https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0646/c/The-Cortex-M7-Instruction-Set/Instruction-set-summary So is the Cortex M7. The entirety of the M0+, M4, and M7 microcontroller cores are very, very small ARMs. iCE40 DSPs Hmmm. Okay, so its an FPGA Risc-V then. That’s kind of sad, that means there’s no hope that its as power-efficient as a proper ASIC core like ARM-M7.
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0646/c/The-Cortex-M7-Instruction-Set/Instruction-set-summary
So is the Cortex M7. The entirety of the M0+, M4, and M7 microcontroller cores are very, very small ARMs.
Hmmm. Okay, so its an FPGA Risc-V then.
That’s kind of sad, that means there’s no hope that its as power-efficient as a proper ASIC core like ARM-M7.