Instruction Set Simulators for processors and Transaction Level Models for other hardware blocks written in languages such as SystemC bring solution to these problems. Processor core of which ...

Intel recently made an unprecedented public challenge to Microsoft and Qualcomm that basically told the latter two companies: if you ship an x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) emulator, we ...

The processor instruction set architecture is an upgrade of the standard MIPS32 ISA (MIPS 1 + MIPS2 ISAs). Among the additions are conditional instructions and prefetch.

Of course, anyone can come up with a microprocessor instruction set architecture; the challenge is to design something that’s both useful to software engineers and can be implemented in silicon in a ...

Intel and AMD took over the server processor market in the mid-2000s. This happened after AMD introduced 64-bit instructions into the x86 instruction set with its Opteron processor architecture.

The RISC-V instruction set architecture is an open framework that allows design of a customized processor that can leverage tools and software libraries created for the standard versions.

U.K. processor developer ARC Cores has announced an instruction set architecture (ISA) that it claims allows designers to mix 16-bit and 32-bit instructions on its 32-bit user-configurable processor, ...

India officially unveiled 'Vikram 3201', the country’s first fully indigenous 32-bit microprocessor designed specifically for ...

Around the same time as 3DNow! instructions were developed, programmers were accustomed to using a model of ‘try and catch’ to check if a processor supported an instruction or instruction set.

Advanced Micro Devices announced the first in a series of planned extensions to its microprocessor instruction set that are designed to ease the development of multicore applications -- eventually.

Using the Haswell binary is important because it supports the Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) microprocessor instruction set, which is also supported by AMD’s Ryzen processors.