EDN

Instruction Set Architecture

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is a set of instructions defined for the processor’s architecture. These are the instructions that the processor understands. It defines the hardware and software ...
EDN

Building a 4-Bit Computer: The Instruction Set

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...
Electronic Design

Renesas CPU Core Readies For Next-Gen MCUs

Forecasting remarkable capabilities in code efficiency, processing performance, and power consumption, the company's design for a Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) CPU architecture will soon ...
Electronic Design

Renesas adds 50 32-bit MCUs

Renesas Technology America (www.america.renesas.com) added 50 devices to its R32C/100 series of 32-bit microcontrollers, which are built around the R32C/100 32-bit CPU core at the high end of Renesas’ ...