The original Pentium 4 was a radical design for a number of reasons, but perhaps its most striking and controversial feature was its extraordinarily deep pipeline. At over 20 stages, the Pentium 4’s ...

The second part of the microprocessor history article has been posted at BTX Form Factor Info. Not very in depth, so it's pretty easy to understand, but covers many areas of processor evolution. There ...

Since the 2.0 kernel release, Linux has supported a large number of SMP systems based on a variety of CPUs. Linux has done an excellent job of abstracting differences among these CPUs, even in kernel ...

This chapter presents the basics of hardware organization for a microprocessor system. Microprocessors are designed to meet a wide range of requirements and price points, catering to diverse ...

The development of caches and caching is one of the most significant events in the history of computing. Virtually every modern CPU core from ultra-low power chips like the ARM Cortex-A5 to the ...

A RISC-V ISA is defined as a base integer ISA, which must be present in any implementation, plus optional extensions to the base ISA. Each base integer instruction set is characterized by Width of the ...