This paper presents an instruction set simulator of a 32-bit CPU and explains its use in embedded software development. Interaction of the ISS with transaction level model of a complex peripheral ...

ARC's configurable processor adds the ability to run both 16 and 32-bit instructions on a 32-bit architecture, allowing designers to reduce memory requirements by up to 30%, resulting in both lower ...

During the AI research boom of the 1970s, the LISP language – from LISt Processor – saw a major surge in use and development, ...

CAMBRIDGE, England — Processor licensor ARM Holdings plc has launched a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) extension to its architecture called Neon. Neon addresses signal and media processing ...

ARC Cores has announced an instruction set architecture (ISA) that it claims allows designers to mix 16 and 32-bit instructions on its 32-bit user-configurable processor. The main features of the ...

Introduced in 1998, 3DNow! was AMD's answer to the growing multimedia demands being placed on the K6-2 silicon of the day. Today AMD has announced that the instruction set is being deprecated. AMD ...

ARC's Tangent-core processor is unique among microcontrollers, but companies are starting to move their microcontroller offerings in Tangent's direction. The ARC core provides 30 base instructions, ...

If instruction sets didn't matter, processors would be cheaper and designers would have more options. That's why one startup's efforts are so intriguing. Every microprocessor is different, in part ...

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