The simplicity of the Berkeley RISC designs provided a powerful platform for innovation. It’s a superpower that continues today with RISC-V.In today’s post, we look at an architecture designed at UC Berkeley soon after the first Berkeley RISC designs. At the time it was called SOAR, for ‘Smalltalk ON A RISC’, but has retrospectively also become known as RISC-III.Plot of the SOAR Layout - Not an image of a real chip ShareBefore we look at SOAR a quick recap on RISC at Berkeley.Reduced Instruction...