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Investigating the Potential of Custom <endeca_term>Instruction Set</endeca_term> Extensions for SHA-3 Candidates on a 16-Bit Microcontroller Architecture

Investigating the Potential of Custom Instruction Set Extensions for SHA-3 Candidates on a 16-Bit Microcontroller Architecture

In this paper, the authors investigate the benefit of instruction set extensions for software implementations of all five SHA-3 candidates. To... Read more

1 February, 2012
A Virtual <endeca_term>Instruction Set</endeca_term> Interface for Operating System Kernels

A Virtual Instruction Set Interface for Operating System Kernels

In this paper, the authors propose and evaluate a virtual instruction set interface between an Operating System (OS) kernel and a general purpose... Read more

1 January, 2011
Leveraging Core Specialization Via OS Scheduling to Improve Performance on Asymmetric Multicore Systems

Leveraging Core Specialization Via OS Scheduling to Improve Performance on Asymmetric Multicore Systems

Asymmetric Multicore Processors (AMPs) consist of cores with the same ISA (instruction-set architecture), but different micro-architectural features, speed, and power consumption. Because... Read more

1 April, 2012
Dynamic Optimization of Micro-Operations

Dynamic Optimization of Micro-Operations

Inherent within complex instruction set architectures such as x86 are inefficiencies that do not exist in... Read more

1 January, 2011
Global ISR: Toward a Comprehensive Defense Against Unauthorized Code Execution

Global ISR: Toward a Comprehensive Defense Against Unauthorized Code Execution

Instruction-Set Randomization (ISR) obfuscates the "Language" understood by a system to protect... Read more

30 November, 2010
An Architecture for Enforcing JavaScript Randomization in Web2.0 Applications

An Architecture for Enforcing JavaScript Randomization in Web2.0 Applications

Instruction Set Randomization (ISR) is a promising technique for preventing code-injection attacks... Read more

30 September, 2010
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...substantial programmer's manual that — for the adventurous — included a complete Z80 instruction set and list of internal memory locations. The game on the screen... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Tilera targets simple cloud tasks with 36-core processors

...chip designer said. "Tilera has outperformed our early expectations given its proprietary instruction set implementation," Bob Wheeler, a senior analyst with the Linley Group, told... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Jack Clark
Project Manager - PMP Certificant Quick Ref 1.02

Project Manager - PMP Certificant Quick Ref 1.02

...a seasoned Project management professional or as a simple, basic and brief instruction set for accomplishing a specific task by a novice Project manager. The... Read more

21 January, 2012

Inside LEO, the first business computer

...As a result, the architecture is a very good example of reduced instruction set computing, Risc, and surprisingly simple — in many ways, it's closer... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Nvidia preps ARM Denver for supercomputers

...we dedicated ourselves to create a new architecture that extends the ARM instruction set, which is inherently very energy-efficient already, and extend it to... Read more

12 November, 2011

ARM preps server push with 64-bit architecture

...as it will be ARM's first to use a 64-bit instruction set, the company announced on Thursday. This means the company can now... Read more

28 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel's Knights Corner to debut in Texas supercomputer

...parallel workloads and provide the benefits of using the most popular x86 instruction set," the University of Texas said in a statement. The machine is... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Via launches chip patent suit against Apple's iPhone

...apparatus for double operand load", and US Patents Nos 6253311 and 6754810, "instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Edward Moyer

The IBM PC: legends from the dawn of time

...expensive to produce, so the team went with Intel and the x86 instruction set. 2. MS-DOS. Industry legend has it that Gary Kildall, who... Read more

12 August, 2011

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