There was a time when owning a computer meant you probably knew most or all of the instructions it could execute. Your modern PC, though, has a lot of instructions, many of them meant for specialized ...

A team based at STMicroelectronics' (ST) central R&D lab in Agrate, Italy, has built a processor with a dynamically programmable instruction set. The work will be presented at the Custom Integrated ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

Cortus released the APS23 and APS25 32-bit processor IP cores, based on v2 of the company’s instruction set. The new instruction set aims to reduce the size of a system’s instruction memory, usually ...