EDN

A short primer on instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer. It’s also referred to as architecture or computer architecture. Moreover, a central processing unit (CPU) ...
EDN

Understanding Assembly Language for IA-32 and Intel 64 Architectures – Part 1: Basic overview and instruction set extensions

First, architecture basics are detailed with information on the register sets, data types, and memory and instruction formats. Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® ...
Design-Reuse

Novel Techniques for Very High Speed Instruction-Set Simulation

Instruction-set simulation is a well established method for a variety of uses: as tool for architecture exploration of next-generation architectures, as reference model for design verification, and as ...
Design-Reuse

Extending RISC-V ISA With a Custom Instruction Set Extension

RISC-V ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) is designed in a modular way. It means that the ISA has several groups of instructions (ISA extensions) that can be enabled or disabled as needed. This allows ...
TechSpot

Intel AVX10, APX are the next step in the x86 instruction set evolution

Why it matters: Intel is gearing up for what the company considers the "next major step" in the evolution of the original x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). The Santa Clara corporation is ...
ZDNet

AMD says goodbye to 3DNow! instruction set

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Semiconductor Engineering

The Challenge Of RISC-V Compliance

The open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) continues to gain momentum, but the flexibility of RISC-V creates a problem—how do you know if a RISC-V implementation fits basic standards ...