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The processor is the heart, the intelligent central element, of a computer or other digital information handling system. It is the part that does all of the processing, the actual work of performing arithmetic or logic operations. Everything else in current computers mostly only holds information, as bits.Some technical names for processors: Central Processing Unit (CPU), Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). Processors can be of many pieces or can be one piece (monolithic). Older processors were always in many pieces, current ones are usually monolithic. Processors that fit fully on one integrated circuit chip are often called microprocessors, and have parts (features) measured in microns or micrometers (millionths of a meter). The future will bring nanoprocessors, with parts measured in nanometers (billionths of a meter), and made with a technology called nanotechnology.



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MicroDesign Resources - An information services company focused on enabling technology for personal computers and the high-performance microprocessor industry. Our work is aimed at engineers and others who need to understand and select new technologies.
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PiSMA - Parallel computer architecture, called PiSMA: Parallel vIrtually Shared Memory Architecture. Article about securing confidential communication using authentication from ACM Crossroads site.
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The Processor-Memory Bottleneck - Problems and Solutions. From Crossroads site.
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Great Microprocessors - Past and present v11.4.3.
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WWW Computer Architecture - The page for all the research in computer architecture and microprocessors.
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Atmel Wireless and Microcontrollers - ICs for innovative solutions in RF, automotive and communications.
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BOPS, Inc. - Develops and licenses scalable, broadband DSP cores used in communications, mobile multimedia, and wireless SOCs.
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ClearSpeed - Floating point accelerator, coprocessor and data parallel processing for HPC, scientific and embedded computer chips. Programmed easily in C language.
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Motorola Semiconductor Products - Producer of embedded processors. SPS processor products are based on PowerPC, M-CORE, ColdFire, M68k, or M68HC cores.
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Integrated Device Technology - Supplier of semiconductors to the communications market.
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MIPS Technologies, Inc. - Makes popular RISC CPU used in consumer electronics, SONY Playstations, some SGI workstations. Initiated MIPS instruction set. Now an independent company developing microprocessor cores and intellectual property to license to other firms.
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Rabbit Semiconductor - Fabless semiconductor firm. Focus: microprocessors and development tools for embedded controls. Rabbit is low power, high performance 8-bit microprocessor, clock speed to 30 MHz, integrated development tools support remote coding.
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IBM Research: VLIW - Very-Long Instruction Word architectures: an alternative way to organize processors. Instead of the trend toward hardware making complex decisions for scheduling machine-level instructions in programs, VLIW systems do scheduling at compile time.
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Powerleap Products - CPU upgrade expert with product briefs, support, discussion forums and compatibility database.
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TriMedia Technologies - Products include high performance VLIW architecture IP cores, embedded media processors, video processors, audio processors, system on chip solutions, an MPEG-2 decoder and MPEG-4 encoder, and application libraries.
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IBM PowerPC Microprocessors - Family of PPC processors with low power and high speed CPUs.
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Improv Systems Inc. - Supplier of configurable DSPs for communications and consumer products including VoIP, wireless, media processing, DSL, MPEG4 and audio engines.
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Synergy Microsystems, Inc. - Manufacturers of VME and CompactPCI SBCs with dual or single PowerPC 750 or G4 microprocessors. Produces the powerful quad processor, VME DSP with Linux Symmetric Multiprocessing.
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Motorola ColdFire Development Resources - Dedicated to the Motorola ColdFire series of Processors with info on how to use GNU C, RTEMS and other free tools to assist embedded development.
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VipLibrary - Explore architectures and solutions, to move from prototype to final product with the same code.
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Hyperstone Electronics GmbH - RISC/DSP processors, flash memory controllers and cards (and compact cards), ASIC design, IP hardware, biometric devices, digital still cameras.
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Amberwave Systems - Produces high-speed, high-transconductance devices that are optimized to perform in digital, analog, or mixed signal systems.
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Synopsys Synthesizable VHDL LC-2 Model - Simple programmable processor defined in the popular introductory textbook.
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Upgradeware Technology - Manufacturer of CPU upgrade products.
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Mitsubishi Semiconductors - Provides chip, chipset and system-on-chip solutions for computers, communications, consumer, industrial, Internet-enabled, automotive, and visual applications.
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