Datapath

Basically Microarchitecture = Datapath + Control Unit. A resonable way to build our RISC-V datapath is to examine the major components required to execute different RISC-V instructions.

• R-type

• I-type

• S-type

• B-type

• J-type

• U-type

References

• This section mainly comes from the lectures on RISC-V by Shao

• Also refers to chapter 7 of Harris & Harris, and chapter 4 of Patterson & Hennessy

• And the official RV32I specification