While the Vikram processor is ISRO’s fully indigenous creation, Kalpana is a 32-bit SPARC V8 RISC microprocessor, designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Description: An introduction to basic computer organizations, microprocessor instruction sets, assembly language programming, the design of various types of digital as well as analog interfaces, and ...

In short, an instruction set is the link between a computer’s software and hardware. It’s a set of basic instructions that a processor understands. Furthermore, it’s about functional definition of ...

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 chip’s fabrication and packaging took place at SCL’s 180nm CMOS facility in Punjab, making it a truly “Make-in-India” space-grade processor.

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, ...

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.

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.