Hey all, just had a couple quick questions. First off, what is the formula for calculating memory bandwidth? I seem to remember learning this once...Secondly: What is the difference between a 16, 32, ...

Our ability to continuously shrink the features of our silicon-based processors appears to be a thing of the past, which has materials scientists considering ways to move beyond silicon. The top ...

A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic, The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M, is on the face of it an interesting little excursion into the late delivery of a long-forgotten bit of software – one ...

Motorola’s DSP561xx delivers single-cycle, two-clock, multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation and offers hardware support for sum of products and vector processing. The DSP561xx 16-bit DSP includes a ...

Davis, Calif.&#151 Rabbit Semiconductor, Inc.’s Rabbit 4000 microprocessor is available in two RoHS compliant packages, 128-pinLQFP and 128-pin TFBGA configurations. Among the features of the unit are ...

We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards, they were ...

Texas Instruments’ (TI) latest MSP430 microcontrollers utilize FRAM for code and data. The unified memory approach simplifies development since code space can be traded off for more data RAM. FRAM ...