We can look at its internal block diagram and get how it works, see the registers and ALU, follow the principles of a von Neumann architecture, and understand that it has an instruction set with ...

Instructions built into x86, SPARC, ARM and other processors that speed up AES encryption and decryption. These specialized instructions also help to prevent attacks on the actual AES processing ...

This isn’t the first time we’ve read about a one-instruction set computer. Years ago, we saw a hardware version of a subtract and branch if negative computer. [Hasith] plans another how-to ...