Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is a set of instructions defined for the processor’s architecture. These are the instructions that the processor understands. It defines the hardware and software ...

With backing from some of the largest technology companies, a major project called RISC-V seeks to facilitate open-source design for computer chips, offering the possibility of opening chip designs ...

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 ...

Forecasting remarkable capabilities in code efficiency, processing performance, and power consumption, the company's design for a Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) CPU architecture will soon ...

The processor we will be considering in this tutorial is the MIPS processor. The MIPS processor, designed in 1984 by researchers at Stanford University, is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ...

Last month, a team of Google security researchers released a tool that can modify microcode of AMD's processors based on the Zen microarchitecture, the Zentool. While this is a security vulnerability, ...

The 32-bit H8SX/1653F and H8SX/1651 CISC (complex-instruction-set-computer) microcontrollers feature a serial-communication interface, a USB 2.0 function, an on-chip JTAG-compliant debugger interface, ...

For months, Apple has been fighting a battle to convince folks that megahertz (MHz) isn’t the most important statistic in determining the speed of a computer. Apple hasn’t made much headway, but ...

An instruction set architecture (ISA) defines the set of basic operations a computer must support. This includes the functional definition of operations and precise descriptions of how to invoke and ...