We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

Microprocessor and IC programmers, compilers, and debuggers are programs that translate high-level language codes into assembly (machine) code, or track and correct errors (bugs) in program code. Many ...

RISC-V technology is used in the development of chip hardware, software, and the creation of intellectual property (IP). Recently, the open standard has gained increased interest with the potential US ...

A new technical paper titled “QiMeng: Fully Automated Hardware and Software Design for Processor Chip” was published by researchers at Chinese Academy of Sciences. “Processor chip design technology ...

Mixed-processor systems are growing more common as standard system-on-a-chip (SoC) architectures, like the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP, become available. OMAP combines a conventional ARM processor ...

Nexar is a software-design environment aimed at bringing a new ease of use to working with FPGAs and exploiting the new generation of complex but affordable programmable products (Picture). It ...

In context: A patch was discovered this week that indicates Intel is preparing a new feature that can lock features of silicon behind software-based activation. It doesn't seem to be rolling out to ...

Stepping motors are often used as output devices for microprocessor-based control systems. The essential feature of these systems is that the microprocessor program produces a result and the stepping ...