There was a time when the clock speed of a CPU was the only thing people were talking about. Back at the turn of the century, Intel and AMD locked horns in a race to release the first 1GHz desktop CPU ...

I’ve worked with a lot of students who want to program computers. In particular, a lot of them want to program games. However, when they find out that after a few weeks of work they won’t be able to ...

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) ...

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 ...

How to validate an application on a RISC-V processor with custom instructions, analyze the application execution, and optimize the custom instruction implementation and its documentation. A RISC-V ...

Designing a µP isn't very difficult. Designing a µP that executes the same instruction set as an existing device, but doesn't copy that device's circuitry or microcode, is far trickier. It's still ...

A new LLVM patch has added V_FMA_F32, a 3-operand fused multiply-add (FMA instruction) and introduced the VOPD3 instruction format for RDNA 5.