Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.

I used to follow the processor business very closely and go to Microprocessor Forum, the premiere show in the industry, every year. One of the arguments made by the hardware geniuses, although never ...

The key to the Virtual Processor Element (VPE) approachused in the MIPS 34K core is a set of extensions of the processor'sbasic instruction set architecture, rather than a specific set ofhardware ...