ascalon d8 is the tenstorrent ascalon processor in it's 8 wide configuration featuring multiple RVV1.0 compliant, 256 bit wide vector units.
It also support a number of optional extensions for RVV, inclusive of: Ascalon Vector unit is designed to enable V-extension with a handful of minor extensions required or optional of the RVA23 Profile.
V: Vector Extension for Application Processors
Zvfh: Vector Extension for Half-Precision Floating-Point
Zvkn: NIST Algorithm Suite
Zvkg: Vector GCM/GMAC
Zvbc: Vector Carryless Multiplication
Zvbb: Vector Basic Bit-manipulation
Zvfbfwma: Vector BF16 widening mul-add
Xsfvqdotq: Vector quad widening 4D Dot Product