AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could be a major architectural leap

Just bear in mind that Intel's Panther Lake has a bit of FRED, too.
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A Chip Designer’s Perspective of RISC-V Traps

Understanding RISC‑V traps is essential for Chip Designers building RISC‑V CPUs, microcontrollers, and complex SoCs. It’s equally important for Embedded Engineers who develop and debug software stacks ...
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exception handler

What is an exception handler? An exception handler is code that stipulates what a program will do when an anomalous or exceptional event occurs and disrupts the normal flow of that program's ...
Embedded

The definitive guide to ARM Cortex-M0/M0+: Wake-up operation

When a WFI instruction is executed or when the processor enters sleep mode using the Sleep-On-Exit feature, the processor stops instruction execution and wakes up when an (higher priority) interrupt ...