The Genius of RISC-V Microprocessors

How the instruction set for RISC-V processors has been designed cleverly for both simplicity and high performance.

Erik Engheim
14 min readDec 15, 2020

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Since the RISC and CISC wars that raged in the late 1990s, people have claimed that RISC and CISC doesn’t matter anymore. Many will claim that instruction-sets are irrelevant.

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Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.