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2 unusual facts about microprocessor


CR8

CR8, Control register number 8: enables x86 processors to prioritize external interrupts and is referred to as the task-priority register

PC GAMESS

PC GAMESS/Firefly is an ab initio computational chemistry program for Intel-compatible x86, x86-64 processors based on GAMESS (US) sources.


André Truong Trong Thi

In 1973, thanks to François Gernelle and a team of engineers, his company created the Micral, the first non-kit, microprocessor based personal computer in the world.

Apoyevmatini

Due to lack of funds, each page was prepared by hand; the infrastructure installed in the newspaper's office consisted of a 486 microprocessor-based PC, an inkjet printer and one photocopy machine.

AVX

Advanced Vector Extensions, an instruction set extension in the x86 microprocessor architecture

Banyan Systems

In 1988 Banyan announced a new server, based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor, known as the Corporate Network Server (CNS).

Bodhi Linux

The hard float application binary interface of the ARM11, a 32-bit RISC microprocessor ARM architecture with ARMv6 architectural additions, provides enormous performance gains for many use cases.

CICS

In 1980, IBM executives failed to heed Ben Riggins' strong suggestions that IBM should provide their own EBCDIC-based operating system and integrated-circuit microprocessor chip for use in the IBM Personal Computer as a CICS intelligent terminal (instead of the incompatible Intel chip, and immature ASCII-based Microsoft 1980 DOS).

COSMAC ELF

The COSMAC ELF was an RCA 1802 microprocessor-based computer based on a series of construction articles in Popular Electronics magazine in 1976 and 1977.

Darien Graham-Smith

Dr Graham-Smith holds the title of Technical Editor at the British periodical PC Pro, published monthly by Dennis Publishing, where he is responsible for coverage of technical issues ranging from microprocessor architecture to operating systems.

David Cheriton

Kealia designed Magnum, a high capacity InfiniBand switch; Galaxy, a range of blade servers based on AMD's Opteron microprocessor; and Thumper, an enterprise grade network attached storage system.

Electronic News

Also in 1971, Electronic News was where Intel first advertised the Intel 4004 microprocessor, considered to be the first single-chip microprocessor.

Electronika

Model names for Electronika-branded Nintendo Game & Watch clones start with IM (ИМ — Игра Микропроцессорная, Russian acronym for "microprocessor game").

ELF II

The Netronics ELF II was an early microcomputer trainer kit featuring the RCA 1802 microprocessor, 256 bytes of RAM, DMA-based bitmap graphics, hexadecimal keypad, two digit hexadecimal LED display, a single "Q" LED, and 5 expansion slots.

EPIA

VIA EPIA (VIA Embedded Platform Innovative Architecture) is a series of mini-ITX, em-ITX, nano-ITX, pico-ITX and pico-ITXe motherboards with integrated VIA processors.

Freescale ColdFire

The Freescale ColdFire is a microprocessor that derives from the Motorola 68000 family architecture, manufactured for embedded systems development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor division of Motorola).

Gdium

The EMTEC Gdium Liberty 1000 is built on an STMicroelectronics Loongson 2F MIPS microprocessor and uses a proprietary form-factored USB key, called the G-Key, as its primary storage medium.

History of electronic engineering

In 1969, Ted Hoff conceived the commercial microprocessor at Intel and thus ignited the development of the personal computer.

HyperSPARC

The hyperSPARC, code-named "Pinnacle", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC Version 8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Ross Technology for Cypress Semiconductor.

Instruction set simulator

An instruction set simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually coded in a high-level programming language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's registers.

J Strother Moore

He and others used ACL2 to prove the correctness of the floating point division operations of the AMD K5 microprocessor in the wake of the Pentium FDIV bug.

James A. Kahle

With over 20 years of experience of chip design, and about 160 patents, he has been key to defining the Power Architecture and the superscalar microprocessor designs at IBM.

KOMDIV

KOMDIV-64, a 64-bit microprocessor developed by NIISI, Russia

LGA 1356

LGA 1356 (Land Grid Array with 1356 pins), also called Socket B2, is an Intel microprocessor compatible socket released in Q1 2012 for the two processor slot (2P) segment of the server market.

Lucas 14CUX

The engine control unit (ECU) of the 14CUX system is run by a Motorola MC6803U4 8-bit microprocessor, which is an uncommon variant of the otherwise ubiquitous 6803.

Marcian Hoff

Hoff joined Intel in 1968 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of using a "universal processor" rather than a variety of custom-designed circuits in the architectural idea and an instruction set formulated with Stanley Mazor in 1969 for the Intel 4004 - the chip that started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s.

Motorola 68030

The Motorola 68030 ("sixty-eight-oh-thirty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in Motorola's 68000 family.

MPC5xx

The MPC5xx family of processors such as the MPC555 and MPC565 are 32-bit PowerPC embedded microprocessors that operate between 40 and 66 MHz and are frequently used in automotive applications including engine and transmission controllers.

NABU Network

The logic module included four socketed chips: a TR1865CL-04, a full-duplex UART, an SC87253P 8-bit microprocessor, an N8X60N FIFO I/O controller and a pre-programmed ROM.

Nick Tredennick

From 1977 to 1979, he was a Senior Design Engineer at Motorola, where he specified and designed the microcode and the controller core of the MC68000 microprocessor, one of the first microprocessors designed by structured VLSI design.

Odhner Arithmometer

In Russia Felix and in Japan Tiger and Busicom which, incidentally, was made famous because Intel created the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, while designing one of their electronic calculators in 1970.

Parsé Semiconductor Co.

The computer microprocessor called Aristo has been manufactured by Iranian researchers and engineers at Parsé Semiconductor with the support the company has received from the Modern Industries Center of the ministry of Industries of Iran.

PC532

The PC532 was a "home-brew" microcomputer design created by George Scolaro and Dave Rand in 1989-90, based around the National Semiconductor NS32532 microprocessor (a member of the NS320xx series).

Peter Hofstee

In mid-2000, Hofstee joined the team to develop the concept of the Cell Broadband Engine, which is the central processing unit of the PlayStation 3, and has already found a number of other uses.

Phoenix-RTOS

It was designed to run mainly on x86-based computers, but ports for ARM and PowerPC microprocessor architectures are under development (alpha versions for ARM7 TDMI core and PowerPC Open Firmware based architectures are available).

Picture Processing Unit

The PPU (Picture Processing Unit), more specifically known as Ricoh RP2C02 (NTSC version) / RP2C07 (PAL version), is the microprocessor in the Nintendo Entertainment System responsible for generating video signals from graphic data stored in memory.

Reactive programming

The OOPic microprocessor supports this style of programming via its virtual circuits.

Robosquirrel

The microprocessor was mounted on a custom designed, two-layer printed circuit board with a DB9 serial port for RS-232 communication and an SD card slot for data storage.

Slot 2

Slot 2 was finally replaced with the Socket 370 with the Pentium III Tualatin; some of the Tualatin Pentium IIIs were packaged as 'Pentium III' and some as 'Xeon', despite the fact they were identical.

Socket 1

Socket 1 was the second of a series of standard CPU sockets created by Intel into which various x86 microprocessors were inserted.

Socket M

It was also used in the first generation of the mobile version of Intel's Core 2 Duo, specifically, the T5x00 and T7x00 Merom lines (referred to as Napa Refresh), though that line switched to Socket P (Santa Rosa) in 2007.

Soft core

Soft microprocessor, microprocessor implemented using logic synthesis and perhaps other circuits

Strongarm

StrongARM, a RISC microprocessor created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Super H

SuperH, a brand name of a certain microcontroller and microprocessor architecture

Terminal node controller

A typical model consists of a microprocessor, a modem, and software (in EPROM) that implements the AX.25 protocol and provides a command line interface to the user.

VIPER microprocessor

VIPER is a 32-bit microprocessor design created by Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in the 1980s, intended for use in safety-critical systems such as avionics.

Voltage and frequency scaling

Dynamic frequency scaling, a technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly," either to conserve power or to reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip

Xilinx

Xilinx's IP cores include IP for simple functions (BCD encoders, counters, etc.), for domain specific cores (digital signal processing, FFT and FIR cores) to complex systems (multi-gigabit networking cores, the MicroBlaze soft microprocessor and the compact Picoblaze microcontroller).

Yu-6 torpedo

The microprocessor used for the Yu-6 is of approximately Intel 80486 class.


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