Originally posted by schmidtbag
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It's ISA served no real purpose since all implementation was and always has been utter crap. Nobody with time or money took OpenRISC under it's wings like RISC-V.
So it's pretty much dead. Not that there is something intrinsically wrong with the ISA though. Most ISA's have issues. OpenRISC is pretty clean.
I had serveral devboards with Blackfins. They where pretty popular for small scale DSP's some 15 years ago.
I have also worked with CRIS. It's a 16-bit opspace RISC if I remember correctly. Address is 32-bit. Developed by Axis Communications in Sweden. Obviously used in all their cameras, printservers etc etc. I think Cannon and other printer companies used them too for ethernet addon-cards with postscript capabilities and stuff like that.
The others I believe were just esoteric oddballs.
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