Adding U-Types

1Learning Outcomes¶

• Coming soon! We provide the animations for now.

2Tracing the lui Datapath¶

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Note that the U-type instructions require left-shifting the immediate by 12 bits (e.g. lui is written as rd = imm << 12 on the reference card). This should already be done by your immediate generator, so your datapath doesn’t need to perform any extra shifting.

3Tracing the auipc Datapath¶

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