Microprocessors Microprocessors The 68h family of 8-bit microprocessors (µPs) and microcontrollers (µCs) is based upon the Motorola 6800 CPU. However, more companies than Motorola produced or innovated on the design—the foremost among those companies being MOS Technology and the Western Design Center. ...more on Wikipedia about "68h"
Addressing modes form part of the instruction set architecture ...more on Wikipedia about "Addressing mode"
Am2900 is a family integrated circuits (ICs) created in 1975 by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). They were constructed with bipolar devices, in a bit-slice topology, and were designed to be used as modular components each representing a different aspect of a computer control unit (CCU). By using a bit slicing technique, Am2900 family was able to implement a CCU with data, addresses, and instructions to be any multiple of 4-bits by multiplying the number of ICs. One major problem with this modular technique was it required a larger amount of ICs to implement what could be done on a single CPU IC. The Am2901 chip was the arithmetic-logical unit (ALU), and the "core" of the series. It could count using 4 bits and implement binary operations as well as various bit-shifting operations.
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The AMD 29000, often simply 29k, was a popular family of RISC-based 32-bit microprocessors and microcontrollers from Advanced Micro Devices. They were, for a time, the most popular RISC chips on the market, widely used in laser printers from a variety of manufacturers. In late 1995 AMD dropped development of the 29k because the design team was transferred to support the PC side of the business. What remained of AMD's embedded business was realigned towards the embedded 186 family of 80186 derivatives. The majority of AMD's resources were then concentrated on their high-performance, desktop x86 clones, using many of the ideas and individual parts of the latest 29k to produce the AMD K5. ...more on Wikipedia about "AMD Am29000"
The AMD K10 is AMD's next generation of processor. Not much is known about it yet as the Athlon 64 (K8) is still a very strong competitor in today's market. It is almost certain however that the K10 will come in dual/quad or even more core configurations. ...more on Wikipedia about "AMD K10"
The AMD K9 generation of CPUs was the codename used to refer to dual core K8 processors. However, AMD has since decided to stop referring to upcoming CPUs by K numbers. While many people thought the K9 was a complete core redesign, that is reserved for what would have been the K10. Some claim the cancellation of the K nomenclature is likely an attempt by AMD to avoid ridicule caused by the similarities between "K9" and " canine", but this is only conjecture, considering K7 and K8 were only internal codenames for the processors that AMD marketed as the Athlon and the Athlon 64, respectively. ...more on Wikipedia about "AMD K9"
ANTIC (Alpha-Numeric Television Interface Circuit) was an early video system chip used in the Atari 8-bit family of microcomputers as well as some of Atari's video game consoles of the 1980s. ...more on Wikipedia about "ANTIC"
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In microprocessor design, the main idea behind an architecture with non-sequential dynamic execution scheduling (ANDES) is to preorder processor instructions by their readiness (not necessarily identic to the program order). It means that the instructions are topologically sorted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Architecture with non-sequential dynamic execution scheduling"
The Hobbit was a microprocessor design of the early 1990s from AT&T. It developed from their CRISP (C-language Reduced Instruction Set Processor) design that was in turn developed from the C Machine experimental efforts in the late 1980s at Bell Labs. C Machine, CRISP and Hobbit were optimized for running the C programming language. The design concentrated on fast instruction decoding, indexed array access and procedure calls. Although it was RISC-like in some aspects, it was an "oddball" design in most others. It failed to garner a successful market niche, and production ended in the mid-90s with no serious commercial use. ...more on Wikipedia about "AT&T Hobbit"
Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of different x86 processors designed and manufactured by AMD. The original Athlon, or Athlon Classic, was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time. AMD has continued the Athlon name with the Athlon 64, an eighth-generation processor featuring AMD64 technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Athlon"
Blackfin refers to a family of 16/32-bit microprocessors manufactured by Analog Devices Inc (ADI). They are designed for embedded audio, video, and communications applications. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blackfin"
Cell is a microprocessor jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The Cell architecture is intended to be scalable through the use of vector processing. The first major commercial application of Cell is in Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 game console. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cell (microprocessor)"
The Clipper architecture is a 32-bit RISC-like instruction set architecture microprocessor chip-set designed by Fairchild Semiconductor. The architecture never enjoyed much market success, and the only computer manufacturers to create major product lines using Clipper processors were Intergraph and High Level Hardware. The first processors using the Clipper architecture were designed and sold by Fairchild, but the division responsible for them was subsequently sold to Intergraph in 1987; Intergraph continued work on Clipper processors for use in its own systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipper architecture"
Copper-based chips are semiconductor integrated circuits, usually microprocessors, which use copper for interconnections. Since copper is a better conductor than aluminium, chips using this technology can have smaller metal components, and use less energy to pass electricity through them. Together, these effects lead to higher-performance processers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Copper-based chips"
A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor (the CPU). Operations performed by the coprocessor may be floating point arithmetic, graphics, signal processing, string processing, or encryption. By offloading processor-intensive tasks from the main processor, coprocessors can acclerate system performance. Coprocessors allow a line of computers to be customized, so that customers who do not need the extra performance need not pay for it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coprocessor"
Crusoe is a family of x86-compatible microprocessors from Transmeta. They use a software abstraction layer, or virtual machine, known as the Code Morphing Software (CMS), running on a VLIW hardware "core". CMS is the only application written for the native VLIW architecture, and translates the incoming x86 instruction stream into VLIW instructions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crusoe"
The Cyrix Cx486SLC was Cyrix's first CPU offering, released after years of selling coprocessors that competed with Intel's units and offered better performance at a comparable or lower price. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyrix Cx486SLC"
The DEC Alpha, also known as the Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit RISC microprocessor originally developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), which used it in its own line of workstations and servers. Designed as a successor to the VAX line of computers, it supported the VMS operating system, as well as Digital UNIX. Later open source operating systems also ran on the Alpha, notably Linux and BSD UNIX flavours. Microsoft supported the processor until Windows NT 4.0 SP6 but did not extend Alpha support beyond release candidate 2 of Windows 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "DEC Alpha"
PRISM, for Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Machine, was a 32-bit RISC CPU design from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was the final outcome of a number of DEC-internal research projects from the 1982-85 time-frame, and was at the point of delivering silicon in 1988 when management cancelled the project. The next year work on the DEC Alpha started. ...more on Wikipedia about "DEC PRISM"
The DSP-1 chip (also the DSP-1A, DSP-1B, DSP-2, DSP-3 , and DSP-4 ) is a digital signal processor used in some Super Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. It has the same core architecture as the NEC uPD77C25 DSP, the only differences between them being Nintendo's custom internal ROMs. While digital signal processors are commonly used as real-time signal processors (in speech synthesis for example), the SNES DSP chips are simply coprocessors with specialized instruction sets. ...more on Wikipedia about "DSP-1 chip"
The AMD Duron was an x86-compatible computer processor manufactured by AMD. It was released on June 19, 2000 as a low-cost alternative to AMD's own Athlon processor and the Pentium III and Celeron processor lines from rival Intel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duron" Please tell your friends about http://www.shortopedia.com shortopedia
Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) is Intel's implementation of AMD64, a 64-bit extension to the IA-32 architecture. See the AMD64 article for architectural details. ...more on Wikipedia about "EM64T"
The Emotion Engine is the name of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) used in Sony PlayStation 2 video game consoles. It was jointly designed by Toshiba and Sony and began mass production in 1999. According to MicroDesign Resources, it is two times faster than a 733 MHz Pentium III and 15 times faster than a 400 MHz Celeron at handling tasks like full-motion video. Despite the name and Sony's initial marketing of the PlayStation 2, this processor is not specifically designed to render realistic "emotions" for game characters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emotion Engine"
Axis ETRAX CRIS ...more on Wikipedia about "ETRAX CRIS"
The F14 CADC, from F-14A Central Air Data Computer, designed by Steve Geller and Ray Holt of Garrett AiResearch Corp. and completed in June 1970, was one of the world's first microprocessors. The MOS- LSI avionics processor and its associated support chip set was developed for the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. ...more on Wikipedia about "F14 CADC"
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