Cadence Design Systems has unveiled the Tensilica ConnX B20 DSP IP that features an enhanced instruction set architecture (ISA) and a clock speed increase. Earlier, Cadence introduced the ConnX B10 ...

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 ...

People tend to stick with the microcontroller unit they are most familiar with. However, on-device Gen AI introduces resource ...

An instruction set architecture (ISA) defines the set of basic operations a computer must support. This includes the functional definition of operations and precise descriptions of how to invoke and ...

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...