Hackaday

Reverse Engineering The Charge Pump Of An 8086 Microprocessor

You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor, a 40-year-old chip with a mere 29,000 transistors on board that kicked off the 16-bit PC revolution, would have no more tales left to tell. But as [Ken ...
YourStory

IIT Madras director V Kamakoti honoured with Padma Shri for Shakti, India's first homegrown chip

Veezhinathan Kamakoti, director of IIT Madras and a leader of India's Shakti microprocessor effort, has received the Padma ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

Microprocessor System Design Students Demo Final Projects

Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers. On December 5, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Flexible Microprocessors (FlexiCores)- Natively flexible 4-bit and 8-bit microprocessors optimized for low footprint and yield

New research paper titled “FlexiCores: low footprint, high yield, field reprogrammable flexible microprocessors” from researchers at University of Illinois and PragmatIC Semiconductor. “Flexible ...
Electrek

The chip guru who built Apple’s Ax microprocessors joins Tesla to lead the Autopilot Hardware Engineering team

Electrek has learned that Tesla this month quietly hired high-profile microprocessor engineer Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering. Tesla today confirmed the news and sent us ...
Electronic Design

Behind the Engineering that Goes into a Leg Prosthesis

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. In 1919, a German prosthetist named Otto Bock surveyed the results of the bloody butchery of World War I and set out to ...