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Any particular reason they decided to write the RTL from scratch?

• gchadwick 3y ago
  It's always a trade-off. On one hand you have an existing known good design with known properties on the other hand adapting the design to your new micro-architecture can be painful and starting from scratch allows you to build a better design in less time. In this case it was a sufficiently radical overhaul of the micro-architecture than the start from scratch approach was preferable.