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 ...

In today's market, the CPU landscape is predominantly defined by two major camps: Intel and AMD. With its significant market share, Intel holds the mantle as the leader in the CPU industry. However, ...

Arm introduces custom instructions on select Arm CPU cores at Arm TechCon. The first CPU core is the Cortex-M33. In one of the many announcements today at Arm’s annual technology conference, Arm ...

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 ...

Every microprocessor is different, in part because it executes its own special set of instructions. Like human languages, CPU instruction sets have a lot of similarities; they just use different words ...

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 ...

x86, the mainstream instruction set architecture for PC CPUs, originated from the Intel 8086 processor and has been in use for 46 years. Technology blog Hackaday claims that x86 will be extinct in the ...

The area of any part of a design contributes both to the silicon cost and to the power consumption. A simplistic following of the “A” in a processor IP vendor’s PPA numbers can be misleading. A ...