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CVA6S+: A Superscalar RISC-V Core with High-Throughput Memory Architecture

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arxiv 2505.03762 v2 pith:V4PZL6JF submitted 2025-04-20 cs.AR

CVA6S+: A Superscalar RISC-V Core with High-Throughput Memory Architecture

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keywords cva6scorecva6enhancedimprovementopen-sourcerisc-vscalar
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Open-source RISC-V cores are increasingly adopted in high-end embedded domains such as automotive, where maximizing instructions per cycle (IPC) is becoming critical. Building on the industry-supported open-source CVA6 core and its superscalar variant, CVA6S, we introduce CVA6S+, an enhanced version incorporating improved branch prediction, register renaming and enhanced operand forwarding. These optimizations enable CVA6S+ to achieve a 43.5% performance improvement over the scalar configuration and 10.9% over CVA6S, with an area overhead of just 9.30% over the scalar core (CVA6). Furthermore, we integrate CVA6S+ with the OpenHW Core-V High-Performance L1 Dcache (HPDCache) and report a 74.1% bandwidth improvement over the legacy CVA6 cache subsystem.

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