As hackers and makers we are surrounded by accessible computing in an astonishing diversity. From tiny microcontrollers to multi-processor powerhouses, they have become the universal tool of our art.

A nine layer bus matrix and 18 DMA channels overcome data bottlenecks in graphics intensive applications. In the last three decades or so, the microprocessor has changed almost unrecognisably. The ...

Silicon densities, both for ASICs and FPGAs, can now support true systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). This level of design requires busing systems to connect various components ...

DLX is an open source microprocessor, it’s free and it has never been implemented in a commercial ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The objective of this project is to use the ...

During the Electronica USA/Embedded Systems Conference (San Francisco, Calif.), product initiatives using RapidIO interconnect technology were presented by six member companies of the RapidIO Trade ...