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| The processor is the heart, the central working 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 and 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 made in many parts or in one part (monolithic). Older processors were always in many parts, current ones are usually monolithic.
There is no one necessary model or configuration for processors. The term's meaning varies with context, mainly by how processors are defined or implemented. Historically, the evolution was as: many cabinets in several rooms, then many cabinets in one room, then many boards in one cabinet, then many chip carriers on one board, then some as a few chips in one chip carrier (package). Key trait: all parts are treated, and work, as one processing unit during some task.
Processors that fit fully on one integrated circuit chip are usually called microprocessors, and have parts (features) measured in microns or micrometers (millionths of a meter), or in nanometers (billionths of a meter). The future will bring nanoprocessors, with parts measured in a few nanometers, and made with a technology called nanotechnology.
On this page, processors are arranged in three groups and levels: 1) Top: issues spanning multiple unrelated processors. 2) Middle: types or classes of processors. 3) Bottom: specific processor families, with their own directory category. |
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18 web sites matced for Processors |
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MicroDesign Resources
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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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The Processor-Memory Bottleneck
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Problems and Solutions. From Crossroads site.
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Great Microprocessors
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Past and present v11.4.3.
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Atmel Wireless and Microcontrollers
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ICs for innovative solutions in RF, automotive and communications.
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Rabbit Semiconductor
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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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Powerleap Products
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CPU upgrade expert with product briefs, support, discussion forums and compatibility database.
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TriMedia Technologies
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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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Improv Systems Inc.
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Supplier of configurable DSPs for communications and consumer products including VoIP, wireless, media processing, DSL, MPEG4 and audio engines.
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VipLibrary
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Explore architectures and solutions, to move from prototype to final product with the same code.
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Amberwave Systems
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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
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Simple programmable processor defined in the popular introductory textbook.
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Upgradeware Technology
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Manufacturer of CPU upgrade products.
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Mitsubishi Semiconductors
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Provides chip, chipset and system-on-chip solutions for computers, communications, consumer, industrial, Internet-enabled, automotive, and visual applications.
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Central Processing Unit
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Growing entry, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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Central Processing Unit
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Explains how a central processing unit in a computer works, for students and teachers; text, diagrams, photographs, links.
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New Microchips Shun Transistors
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Story on magnetic quantum cellular automata research, non-volatile logic, at University of Notre Dame. Works via areas of magnetic orientation instead of transistors and wires. [Wired News]
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Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
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Was Synergy Microsystems, Inc. Makes VME and CompactPCI SBCs with dual or single PowerPC 750, G4, or Pentium processors; powerful quad processor, VME DSP with Linux Symmetric Multiprocessing; VxWorks Integrity.
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Prototype Glass Sheet Computer Unveiled
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Transparent computer processor was printed on to a flat plate of continuous grain silicon glass by researchers at Sharp Japan laboratory; suggests very thin computers and televisions might be built fully on one sheet of glass. [New Scientist]
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