Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

A Perspective in National Science Review outlines a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design. By combining ...

As more complex devices with higher levels of integration are inserted into real-time systems, traditional testing methods are becoming obsolete. The most difficult obstacle to thorough testing of ...

For many applications, allocating performance among all of the tasks in a system-on-chip (SoC) design is much easier, and provides greater design flexibility, with multiple CPUs than with just one ...

Anyone who has studied electrical engineering will know that with the right tools, know-how, and a lot of perseverance, it's possible to design a basic CPU from scratch. It won't be anything like ...