Jerry Zhao and Daniel Grubb and Miles Rusch and Tianrui Wei and Kevin Anderson and Borivoje Nikolic and Krste Asanović

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2024-215

December 14, 2024

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2024/EECS-2024-215.pdf

This manual describes the Saturn Vector Unit, a parameterized and extensible vector microarchitecture executing the RISC-V vector extension. Saturn was developed to address an academic need for a representative, compliant, and flexible generator of RISC-V vector units targeting deployment in domain-specialized cores. Saturn is implemented as a parameterized Chisel RTL generator, enabling a range of possible Saturn configurations across many target deployment scenarios. This document discusses the microarchitectural details of all Saturn components.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Zhao:EECS-2024-215,
    Author= {Zhao, Jerry and Grubb, Daniel and Rusch, Miles and Wei, Tianrui and Anderson, Kevin and Nikolic, Borivoje and Asanović, Krste},
    Title= {The Saturn Microarchitecture Manual},
    Year= {2024},
    Month= {Dec},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2024/EECS-2024-215.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2024-215},
    Abstract= {This manual describes the Saturn Vector Unit, a parameterized and extensible vector microarchitecture executing the RISC-V vector extension. Saturn was developed to address an academic need for a representative, compliant, and flexible generator of RISC-V vector units targeting deployment in domain-specialized cores. Saturn is implemented as a parameterized Chisel RTL generator, enabling a range of possible Saturn configurations across many target deployment scenarios. This document discusses the microarchitectural details of all Saturn components.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Zhao, Jerry 
%A Grubb, Daniel 
%A Rusch, Miles 
%A Wei, Tianrui 
%A Anderson, Kevin 
%A Nikolic, Borivoje 
%A Asanović, Krste 
%T The Saturn Microarchitecture Manual
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2024
%8 December 14
%@ UCB/EECS-2024-215
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2024/EECS-2024-215.html
%F Zhao:EECS-2024-215