In my previous article, Understanding the Microprocessor, I gave a high-level overview of what a microprocessor is and how it functions. I talked about the kinds of tasks it performs and the different ...
As the complexity of advanced DSPs increases, it is becoming much more difficult to program them effectively to meet system performance goals. The possibility of assembler level programming becomes ...
At the HotChips conference 2020, Alibaba announced the Xuantie-910 RISC-V core which is an ultra high-performance processor with an AI acceleration engine based on RISC-V RV64GCV. It has a remarkable ...
ARM Holdings is working on versions of its microprocessor architecture that will be able to execute instructions in parallel. The company is looking at both superscalar and very long instruction word ...