Pioneers of computer architecture receive ACM Turing Award Contributions to microprocessors helped usher in mobile and IoT revolutions Grant and Award Announcement Association for Computing Machinery ...

The personal computing business as we know it owes itself to an environment of enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and happenstance. The invention of the microprocessor, DRAM, and EPROM integrated ...

Secure processor architecture research is concerned with exploring and designing hardware features inside computer processors, features which can help protect confidentiality and integrity of the code ...

CPU architecture is generally taught as part of electronic engineering, computer science and computer engineering courses, and is based on MIPS or one of the other two major CPU architectures.

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

PREREQUISITES BY COURSES: COMP_ENG 361 or consent of the instructor. PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC: Basic notions of computer architecture including programs, instruction sets, simple processor design and ...

Prior to the existence of the CPU/GPU architecture, microprocessors had blitters – logic blocks that rapidly modified data within the memory, capable of copying large swathes of data in parallel ...

1976: The x86 architecture suffers a setback when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce the Apple II computer using the 8-bit 6502 processor from MOS Technology.

In 1971, one of the designers of the F-14’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) – [Ray Holt] – wrote an article for Computer Design magazine that was naturally immediately classified by the ...

TRIPS is an example of a new computer architecture called EDGE for Explicit Data Graph Execution. While a traditional processor makes use of limited parallel processing to increase instruction ...