Applicability of this chapter to configurations:

Configuration	Implementation
CV32A60AX	Implemented extension
CV32A60X	Implemented extension

RVZba: Address generation instructions

The Zba instructions can be used to accelerate the generation of addresses that index into arrays of basic types (halfword, word, doubleword) using both unsigned word-sized and XLEN-sized indices: a shifted index is added to a base address.

The shift and add instructions do a left shift of 1, 2, or 3 because these are commonly found in real-world code and because they can be implemented with a minimal amount of additional hardware beyond that of the simple adder. This avoids lengthening the critical path in implementations.

While the shift and add instructions are limited to a maximum left shift of 3, the slli instruction (from the base ISA) can be used to perform similar shifts for indexing into arrays of wider elements. The slli.uw — added in this extension — can be used when the index is to be interpreted as an unsigned word.

The following instructions (and pseudoinstructions) comprise the Zba extension:

RV32	RV64	Mnemonic
	✔	add.uw rd, rs1, rs2
✔	✔	sh1add rd, rs1, rs2
	✔	sh1add.uw rd, rs1, rs2
✔	✔	sh2add rd, rs1, rs2
	✔	sh2add.uw rd, rs1, rs2
✔	✔	sh3add rd, rs1, rs2
	✔	sh3add.uw rd, rs1, rs2
	✔	slli.uw rd, rs1, imm

RV32 and RV64 Instructions

• SH1ADD: Shift left by 1 and add

  Format: sh1add rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction shifts rs1 to the left by 1 bit and adds it to rs2.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = X(rs2) + (X(rs1) << 1)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

• SH2ADD: Shift left by 2 and add

  Format: sh2add rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction shifts rs1 to the left by 2 bit and adds it to rs2.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = X(rs2) + (X(rs1) << 2)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

• SH3ADD: Shift left by 3 and add

  Format: sh3add rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction shifts rs1 to the left by 3 bit and adds it to rs2.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = X(rs2) + (X(rs1) << 3)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

RV64 specific instructions

• ADD.UW: Add unsigned word

  Format: add.uw rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction performs an XLEN-wide addition between rs2 and the zero-extended least-significant word of rs1.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = rs2 + EXTZ(X(rs1)[31..0])

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

• SH1ADD.UW: Shift unsigned word left by 1 and add

  Format: sh1add.uw rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction performs an XLEN-wide addition of two addends. The first addend is rs2. The second addend is the unsigned value formed by extracting the least-significant word of rs1 and shifting it left by 1 place.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = rs2 + (EXTZ(X(rs1)[31..0]) << 1)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

• SH2ADD.UW: Shift unsigned word left by 2 and add

  Format: sh2add.uw rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction performs an XLEN-wide addition of two addends. The first addend is rs2. The second addend is the unsigned value formed by extracting the least-significant word of rs1 and shifting it left by 2 places.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = rs2 + (EXTZ(X(rs1)[31..0]) << 2)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

• SH3ADD.UW: Shift unsigned word left by 3 and add

  Format: sh3add.uw rd, rs1, rs2

  Description: This instruction performs an XLEN-wide addition of two addends. The first addend is rs2. The second addend is the unsigned value formed by extracting the least-significant word of rs1 and shifting it left by 3 places.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = rs2 + (EXTZ(X(rs1)[31..0]) << 3)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE

• SLLI.UW: Shift-left unsigned word (Immediate)

  Format: slli.uw rd, rs1, imm

  Description: This instruction takes the least-significant word of rs1, zero-extends it, and shifts it left by the immediate.

  Pseudocode: X(rd) = (EXTZ(X(rs)[31..0]) << imm)

  Invalid values: NONE

  Exception raised: NONE