A great CPU is at the heart of every PC, working in tandem with other components to power everything you do. Knowing what ...

I suppose the holy grail would be to bootstrap your custom CPU into a full-blown Linux system. That’s a big enough job that I haven’t done it. Although you might be more productive than I am ...

On a microcontroller, though, you’ll have to roll your own CPU load meter with a few parts, some code, and a voltmeter. We like [Dave Marples]’s simple approach to quantifying something as ...

competition has been successfully cracked by researchers at the Catholic University if Leuven in Belgium using a simple CPU. Last month, NIST announced four candidates that will be standardised as ...