[Ken Shirriff] is the gift that keeps on giving this new year. His latest is a reverse engineering of the 74181 Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). The great news is that the die image and complexity are ...
A computer is, at its core, just a bunch of transistors wired together. Once you have enough transistors on a board, though, one of the first layers of abstraction that arises is the Arithmetic Logic ...
Power consumption control in logic circuits, long a feature of forward looking papers from Japanese companies at ISSCC, hit the conference mainstream last week when Intel presented a paper on a 4GHz ...