When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

Overview of digital logic design. Implementation technologies, timing in combinational and sequential circuits, EDA tools, basic arithmetic units, introduction to simulation and synthesis using ...

A system-chip targeting image and voice processing and recognition application domains is implemented as a representative of the potential of using programmable logic in system design. It features an ...

Do you see that grumpy old engineer in the corner of the lab who delights in sending new graduates down to stores to get a bag of holes. That could have been me, but when Personnel departments became ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

APEX-Optimized 32-bit Configurable Processor for Altera's Megafunction Partner Program (AMPP SM) High Performance MPU for Embedded Systems Web-based Xtensa Generator will Provide MPU Features ...

The first fully functional microprocessor logic devices based on few-atom-thick layered materials have been demonstrated by researchers from the Graphene Flagship, working at TU Vienna in Austria. The ...

Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the story of how the first microprocessor was invented. This week, Masatoshi Shima of Busicom, tells how it was designed. Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the ...

The Cell Broadband Engine is an advanced multicore microprocessor optimized for compute-intensive workloads and various broadband media applications including computer entertainment, movies, and other ...

The 4004 chip is 40 today, so it's about time it had a mid-life identity crisis. Its creation story is well known — here's ZDNet UK's coverage from its 30th birthday — and it is indeed the first ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last post, I talked about the dawn of the ...

Do you see that grumpy old engineer in the corner of the lab who delights in sending new graduates down to stores to get a bag of holes? That could have been me, but when personnel departments became ...