Coding Relic

Last week Andy Firth published The Demise of the Low Level Programmer , expressing dismay over the lack of low level systems knowledge di...

Yesterday Intel announced details of their 22nm silicon process . There were a number of fascinating details on how the transistors are mad...

In July 2010 Microsoft signed an architecture license with ARM. In January 2011 Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will run on ARM CPUs . S...

In January JP Morgan predicted that Intel would acquire an FPGA vendor in 2010. Speculation immediately focussed on Altera and Xilinx , wh...

The ARM architecture dominates mobile computing. It is used in all popular mobile phones and in a huge percentage of battery powered device...

When Apple announced its A4 ARM CPU, I speculated about what would be in it. This speculation turned out to be completely wrong, but it wa...

Virtual Machine architectures are a fascinating topic, and one that I plan to occasionally explore in this space. Not virtual machines in t...

Voyager 2 is currently traversing the heliosphere , the shockwave where the solar wind and particles of the interstellar medium meet. Decad...

Lets talk about iSCSI for a moment, as a launching point for a discussion about data integrity. iSCSI relies on CRC32 to catch data corrup...

What the web needs right now is another blog post about the iPad. No, don't run away! This will be different, I promise. We'll foc...

EE Times reports on a JP Morgan Analyst prediction that Intel will acquire an FPGA vendor. The purported reason: to expand its competitiven...

On October 21 ARM announced a new CPU design at the low end of their range, the Cortex A5 . It is intended to replace the earlier ARM7 , A...

In 2007 AMD implemented an I/O MMU in their system architecture, which translates DMA addresses from peripheral devices to a different add...

ASIC design is all about juggling multiple competing requirements. You want to make the chip competitive by increasing its capabilities, by ...

Intel has a long but uneven history in the embedded market. In the early days of the personal computer Intel released the 80286 as a follow...

"Soft Error" is a euphemism in the semiconductor industry for "the silicon did the wrong thing." Soft errors can occur w...