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Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft

We recently obtained a clock that flew on a Soyuz space mission.1 The clock, manufactured in 1984, contains over 100 integrated circuits on ten circuit boards. Why is the clock so complicated? In this blog post, I examine the clock’s circuitry and explain why so many chips were needed.

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RSD RISC-V Out-of-Order Superscalar Processor

RSD is a 32-bit RISC-V out-of-order superscalar processor core. RSD is very fast due to aggressive OoO features, while it is very compact and can be synthesized for small FPGAs. The key features of RSD are as follows: Install the following software for running simulation.

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