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On Thu, 22 May 2025 6:51:05 +0000, David Chmelik wrote:


> What is Concertina 2?

Roughly speaking, it is a design where most of the non-power of 2
data types are being supported {36-bits, 48-bits, 60-bits} along
with the standard power of 2 lengths {8, 16, 32, 64}.

This creates "interesting" situations with respect to instruction
formatting and to the requirements of constants in support of those
instructions; and interesting requirements in other areas of ISA.