Electronic Design

How Microprocessor Systems Defined Logic Analyzers

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...
Design-Reuse

A Reconfigurable System featuring Dynamically Extensible Embedded Microprocessor, FPGA and Customisable I/O

A system-chip targeting image and voice processing and recognition application domains is implemented as a representative of the potential of using programmable logic in system design. It features an ...
Design-Reuse

Altera and Tensilica Announce the Xtensa(tm) Microprocessor Core Now Available for APEX(tm) Devices

APEX-Optimized 32-bit Configurable Processor for Altera's Megafunction Partner Program (AMPP SM) High Performance MPU for Embedded Systems Web-based Xtensa Generator will Provide MPU Features ...
EDN

Afternoon diversion: Design your own microprocessor

Do you see that grumpy old engineer in the corner of the lab who delights in sending new graduates down to stores to get a bag of holes. That could have been me, but when Personnel departments became ...
Los Angeles Times

Volker Dolch, 59; Leader in Designing Computer Processors

Volker Dolch, 59, a pioneer in microprocessor design who founded Dolch Logic Instruments in Germany in 1976 and Dolch Computer Systems in California in 1987, died of cancer at his home in Belvedere, ...
Electronics Weekly

Designing The Microprocessor, By Masatoshi Shima

Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the story of how the first microprocessor was invented. This week, Masatoshi Shima of Busicom, tells how it was designed. Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the ...
Ars Technica

The 40th birthday of—maybe—the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...
EDN

Logic Launches System on Module and eXperimenter Development Kit for the Texas Instruments AM3517 microprocessor

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Logic, an innovative product solutions company, announces the availability of the AM3517 System on Module (SOM) and the Zoom AM3517 eXperimenter Development Kit ...
Business Wire

Logic PD Unveils the Industry’s Smallest Embedded Modules

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logic PD today revealed the industry’s smallest embedded modules: the Torpedo System on Modules (SOM) based on Texas Instruments’ DM3730 DaVinci™ video processor and ...
Computerworld

Chameleon Computing

Imagine a handheld device that combines the functionality of a cell phone, a PDA, an MP3 player, a digital camera, a television and a half-dozen other devices. Whatever the merits of such a gizmo, for ...
PC Magazine

The Birth of the Microprocessor

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last post, I talked about the dawn of the ...