Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

If instruction sets didn't matter, processors would be cheaper and designers would have more options. That's why one startup's efforts are so intriguing. Every microprocessor is different, in part ...

There was a time when the clock speed of a CPU was the only thing people were talking about. Back at the turn of the century, Intel and AMD locked horns in a race to release the first 1GHz desktop CPU ...

I'm still busily beavering away on the idea of my Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg mixed-technology computer (relays, vacuum tubes, transistors, fluidic logic, etc.). As you'll see if you visit the above ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...

This paper provides an overview of the processor reorder buffer timeout and provides methodology to debug these types of system issues. Using the debug methods and debug tools suggested in this ...