Handheld devices including smartphones and Tablet PCs have touch screens and many buttons for different functions. In order to save battery power, if the screen is not touched or the button is not ...

AMD was the first to come out with its proposed changes in February 2021: AMD Supervisor Entry Extensions. Intel followed in March with its flexible return and event delivery (FRED) design. What ...

You can use Microchip's low-cost PIC16F818 microprocessor and a pair of gates to construct a digital PLL that can clean noisy digital signals over a range of 4 to 40 kHz. Featuring programmable lock ...

Just bear in mind that Intel's Panther Lake has a bit of FRED, too.

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Every engineer wants a microprocessor to fit an application like a glove. But nobody wants to design a micro for a specific application. Too expensive. Too much work. But today, engineers can get a ...

Every time a computer receives a network packet, completes a disk write, or a user moves the mouse, the processor handles an event known as an ...

Linux now works on the Mac mini with M1 processor — but Apple did not make it easy for the team to port the OS with its custom firmware and unique data paths. Here's how Corellium got it done. Now ...

Hi all,<br><br>I was trying to figure out how APIC and IRQL are related, and I can't quite get it organized in my head. So far I have this, which I think is right:<br><br>The PIC used to support up to ...