[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture ... These included instruction privileges, register privileges, and multiple trap levels.

The first is with a DSP, a chip that performs very specialized functions on a limited set of data ... or any one of the other really beefy CPU architectures out there. Superscalars are great ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

see the entire Vector Floating-point coprocessor based on ARM VFPv2 Instruction Set Architecture for FA626TE 32-bit RISC CPU datasheet get in contact with Vector ...

A new contest inspired by Google's Zentool challenges developers to modify AMD Zen CPU microcode to run RISC-V programs ...

Starting this core basics are all structured the architecture and functional blocks. Figure 5. Block diagram of the 8051 microcontroller IP-core Oregano Preliminary results of simulations were ...

Built in conjunction with HP, it was Intel's first 64-bit CPU architecture. Itanium came out before AMD's x86-64 instruction set and, thus, did not rely on the x86 instruction set. Itanium relied ...

This is a 64-bit version of its x86 instruction set that's also known as AMD64, in a cross-licensing deal with rival CPU maker AMD. If Intel moves forward with the new x86S architecture ...

Chinese chip designer Loongson, whose products have been promoted by China’s government, has teased two new designs that will make it more of a contender for mobile and industrial applications. It may ...

While several reports have pointed to PC CPU development activities by ... which licenses the Arm instruction set architecture and Arm-based chip designs to third parties such as Qualcomm and ...