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 ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. ARM holdings announced a new microprocessor design based on the "Flycatcher" architecture yesterday, ...

With thousands of different microprocessors available, why would you want to roll your own? Well, maybe because yours has to be compatible with one that is no longer being made. Maybe you have plenty ...

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 ...

Do you see that grumpy old engineer in the corner of the lab who delights in sending new graduates down to stores to get a bag of holes. That could have been me, but when Personnel departments became ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...