Embedded21 年
Instruction set translation
If instruction sets didn't matter, processors would be cheaper and designers would have more options. That's why one startup's efforts are so intriguing. Every microprocessor is different, in part ...
Design-Reuse5 年
Extending RISC-V ISA With a Custom Instruction Set Extension
Custom instruction-set architectures, or custom ISA extensions ... You can start your work with a full-blown RISC-V-compliant processor and add custom ISA extensions according to your needs, or you ...
Hackaday10 个月
The Intel 8088 And 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...
Semiconductor Engineering3 年
A Minimal RISC-V
Is it small enough to replace 8-bit processors? What might help people migrate to a more modern processor architecture? RISC-V defines a 32-bit processor instruction set architecture (ISA) that is ...