Using the Haswell binary is important because it supports the Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) microprocessor instruction set, which is also supported by AMD’s Ryzen processors.

Introduced in 1998, 3DNow! was AMD's answer to the growing multimedia demands being placed on the K6-2 silicon of the day. Today AMD has announced that the instruction set is being deprecated.

Processor IP developer Cortus has launched new cores– the APS23 and 25 – based on its V2 instruction set. The V2 instruction set extends functionality by adding 24bit instructions to the existing 16 ...

Choosing the MIPS instruction set meant paying licensing fees to MIPS. Given the increasing remoteness of MIPS’ heyday and the size of the Intel market, it might be more instinctive idea to build ...

Such a long lead time isn’t uncommon for instruction set extensions, according to AMD officials. The company detailed its 64-bit CPU extensions in 1999, but they didn’t appear in processors ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...

As with most designs, simple random stimulus is not sufficient to verify a processor fully. Pure random instructions rarely create useful stimulus for the processor to target important design ...

Intel and AMD took over the server processor market in the mid-2000s. This happened after AMD introduced 64-bit instructions into the x86 instruction set with its Opteron processor architecture.

U.K. processor developer ARC Cores has announced an instruction set architecture (ISA) that it claims allows designers to mix 16-bit and 32-bit instructions on its 32-bit user-configurable processor, ...

Instruction Set Simulators for processors and Transaction Level Models for other hardware blocks written in languages such as SystemC bring solution to these problems. Processor core of which ...

Codasip is an ‘application specific processor design tool’ and IP provider. Today it’s closed its first round of public funding totalling $2.8 million to push its technology product forward.