This work presents ARV, an asynchronous superscalar organisation for the RISC-V architecture. As far as the authors could verify, this is the first proposal of an asynchronous version for this recent open source processor architecture. The organisation is modelled using Google's Go as a high level hardware description language. Go has proved adequate to model the refined handshake structures present in the asynchronous design of complex super-scalar structures. Preliminary performance data

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... ned using the Go model enabled a detailed evaluation of the organisation, providing design exploration of several points to further improve the organisation before committing to its implementation at lower abstraction levels. 978-1-5386-1911-7/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE