Tensilica’s Steve Leibson makes a strong case for the end of 16-bit processors, as he says 32-bit devices offer a clear advantage over their smaller brethren Like many 19th and 20th-century ...
Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life. Steve Leibson, ...
Building a functioning 16-bit processor or CPU inside Microsoft Excel, with its own memory, output, and custom assembly language, is an impressive - if not entirely useful - feat. This is because ...
To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Intel 4004 -- the first single-chip CPU -- we're going to take a look at the history of Intel's microprocessors. We'll start with the 4004 but quickly move onto ...
Soft cores for FPGAs come in many different flavors, covering a wide range of applications. The Bit-Serial CPU (bcpu) soft core presented by [Richard James Howe] is interesting for taking up just ...
Cambridge Consultants has released a new 16-bit RISC microprocessor IP core. Cambridge Consultants has released a new 16-bit RISC microprocessor IP core, which it will feature at the Design & Reuse IP ...