Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. today announced two new 32-bit complex-instruction set computer (CISC) microcontrollers with integrated 128-kilobytes of ROM and 6-Kbytes of RAM. The MCUs are the industry's ...

Go read about EPIC, VLIW versus superscalar cores to see what modern computer architects are arguing over, instead of silly ancient terms like CISC vs RISC.<BR><BR>The answer to your question is that ...

As far back as the late 1980s, chip pundits have predicted the demise of x86. Intel’s CPU architecture was a dead end, they said, and the day was fast approaching when the chipmaker would reach the ...

Despite what has been written (and rewritten) about the potential obsolescence of platforms based on RISC processors, they keep on going and going. Indeed, RISC processors have never been more ...

Techniques of adding DSP capability to an existing CISC system were discussed in the first part of this article. 68k code for part of a frequency analysis system was developed. A procedure that will ...

DSP applications are specialized by nature.Since DSPs are primarily dataflow engines,they 're almost always accompanied by a RISC or CISC processor,making most designs multiprocessor and ...