Electronic Design

Reviving Bit-slice Technology in a Programmable Fashion

The term "Bit Slicing" was once dominant in history books as a technique for constructing a processor from processor modules of smaller bit width where each of these components processes one field or ...
EDN

Dual Port SRAMs Yield Bit-Slice Designs without Microcode

High performance controller designs used bit-slice components for their speed and design flexibility. Speeds of 10-20 million instructions per second (MIPS) are common and the designer can use bit ...
Engadget

ARM Cortex-M0+ is a low-power, low cost 32-bit processor for the 'internet of things'

CAMBRIDGE, UK – March 13, 2012– ARM today announced the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor, the world's most energy-efficient microprocessor. The Cortex-M0+ processor has been optimized to deliver ultra ...
Electronic Design

32-Bit Architecture Challenges 8-Bit Processors

Can developers utilize a 32-bit architecture with a clear upgrade path even when low power and compact size are high on the list of requirements? Arm Ltd. attempts to answer that question with its ...