The prolific x86 and Arm architectures might soon have another contender to deal with as RISC-V adoption rises.

Open source software rightly gets a lot of attention; open source hardware has its part to play too. One development drawing increasing attention in both technical and executive circles is RISC-V, ...

We can look at its internal block diagram and get how it works, see the registers and ALU, follow the principles of a von Neumann architecture, and understand that it has an instruction set with ...

RISC-V ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) is designed in a modular way. It means that the ISA has several groups of instructions (ISA extensions) that can be enabled or disabled as needed. This allows ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Arm intends to sell more prêt-à-porter designs to increase its average selling prices, court documents seen by Reuters reveal ...

The solution for these problems is to use instruction-set simulator (ISS); ISS functionally behaves as model CPU, but it does not map any internal architecture and thus – it simulates four to five ...

Understand the architecture of a basic computer system and its components, and the role of performance in designing computer systems. Understand how to design and instruction set and its impact on ...

Intel and AMD said several tech giants are backing their new effort to expand the ecosystem for the x86 instruction set architecture at the heart of their dueling CPU businesses. The Santa Clara ...