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 ...

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 ...

Hello all, I have a question regarding CPU instruction sets. I have heard that the aging x86 instruction set is holding back progress, so to speak. So I was thinking about what would make a better, ...

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...

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 ...

The S5000 software-configurable processor family combines the flexibility of the compilable Tensilica Xtensa RISC processor core and the programmable Stretch instruction-set extension fabric (ISEF) to ...

Although processor to hardware partitioning can be successfully resolved by a combination of designer experience, precedent, tools, such as profilers and data-transfer analyzers …and a degree of ...

Are you sufficiently paranoid? If you’re not, there’s now Sandsifter. This project, just announced at Defcon 2017, tests your x86 processor for hidden instructions and bugs. “Sandsifter has uncovered ...

In the Core Temp program, you’ll see your CPU’s current temperatures below the “Processor #0: Temperature Readings” heading.