Over the years the leading microprocessor company, Intel, has introduced a steady stream of new microprocessor designs: the 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, and more ...

Mark Hempstead owns shares in Intel Corp in a retirement account. He has received federal and industry funds for his research in power-management and computer architecture. Computers’ amazing ...

Abstract: Comparing with the passion for verification technical innovations, the practical verification experiences especially the bug reports and analyses rarely appear in public research. It is very ...

Abstract: This paper presents a design of the low-control-overhead asynchronous microprocessor. This is an experiment on exploring the benefits of asynchronous microprocessor design for high-speed, ...

As new use cases emerge in the personal electronics market, the processors that run them must evolve to meet the changing requirements. In 1990, the productivity era drove growth in personal computers ...

The objective of this project is to design a simple microprocessor capable of executing a set of assembly instructions. The microprocessor features an 8-bit address bus, separate 8-bit input and ...

In this project, I have successfully designed and implemented a simplified 4-bit microprocessor. The design journey began with conceptualizing and then bringing to life a hardware model that operates ...

Does system architecture affect power dissipation? You bet it does. A few days ago, I discussed an article in EDN that was written by Dean Andersen. He stated as his first major point that ...