CPU architecture
Instruction execution, control, pipelines, hazards, and design trade-offs.
TECHNOLOGY / SILICONRESEARCH
Processor research from first principles.
RTM Silicon is an early research direction focused on learning CPU and SoC design through architecture study, simulation, verification, and eventual FPGA experiments.
01 / SCOPE
Research areas
RISC-V
An open ISA for structured architecture study and implementation experiments.
SoC research
Interconnects, peripherals, memory, acceleration, and integration.
Memory systems
Caches, latency, bandwidth, hierarchy, and consistency.
Power efficiency
Performance under practical energy and thermal constraints.
Security
Privilege, isolation, trusted execution, and hardware attack surfaces.
Verification
Simulation, assertions, test generation, and evidence of correctness.
Acceleration
Purpose-built compute for graphics, AI, media, and system tasks.
02 / MODEL
A minimal research path
The order matters: specification before implementation, and verification throughout.
01ISA SCOPE
02MICROARCHITECTURE
03RTL MODEL
04SIMULATION
05VERIFICATION
06FPGA