There was a time when owning a computer meant you probably knew most or all of the instructions it could execute. Your modern PC, though, has a lot of instructions, many of them meant for specialized ...

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Are you sufficiently paranoid? If you’re not, there’s now Sandsifter. This project, just announced at Defcon 2017, tests your x86 processor for hidden instructions and bugs. “Sandsifter has uncovered ...

Although processor to hardware partitioning can be successfully resolved by a combination of designer experience, precedent, tools, such as profilers and data-transfer analyzers …and a degree of ...

Altera has given its Nios soft processor core for FPGAs the ability to run custom instructions. The technique is already exploited by ARC International and Tensilica in their designs aimed at asics ...

When System-on-Chip (SoC) developers include processors in their designs, they face choices in solving their computational challenges, as Codasip CTO Zdeněk Přikryl explains in this whitepaper.