Science Daily

Tool for checking complex computer architectures reveals flaws in emerging design

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)

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 ...
EDN

Building a 4-Bit Computer: The Instruction Set

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...
Electronic Design

Renesas CPU Core Readies For Next-Gen MCUs

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 ...
Electronic Design

Renesas adds 50 32-bit MCUs

Renesas Technology America (www.america.renesas.com) added 50 devices to its R32C/100 series of 32-bit microcontrollers, which are built around the R32C/100 32-bit CPU core at the high end of Renesas’ ...
EDN

Renesas boosts throughput of 32-bit CISC MCUs

San Jose, Calif.—Renesas Technology America Inc. announced the H8SX/1700 microcontroller series, featuring an enhanced H8SX 32-bit CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) CPU core with a higher ...