RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
RISC-V has come under scrutiny, with detractors questioning its suitability for various applications. However, the author argues that RISC-V's design choices are fundamentally incompatible with the requirements of low-cost microcontrollers. These devices primarily need low interrupt latency and small code size, which RISC-V struggles to provide.
While it may eventually dominate the inexpensive single-use microcontroller market, the author contends that it will do so only because it is an improvement over existing standards like 8051, not due to its ISA design.
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