• There are 4 base standards :

    • RV32I -
    • RV32E - this is RV32I that has been made for constrained enironments : it has few registers : x0-x15
    • RV64I
    • RV128I
  • Word referes to the size of the register > Eg A word in a 32bit CPU is 32 bits, A word in 64bit CPU is 64bits.