I'm taking a computer architecture course at my university to satisfy some prerequisites I'm missing for grad school. As a disclaimer, I'm in CS, not CE or EE, so my understanding of the detailed ...

In my previous article, Understanding the Microprocessor, I gave a high-level overview of what a microprocessor is and how it functions. I talked about the kinds of tasks it performs and the different ...

The MIPS R5xxx, with applications ranging from routers to arcade games to digital set-top boxes, represents a variety of processors that implement the MIPS IV instruction set. The superscalar R5000, ...