Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

There was a time when owning a computer meant you probably knew most or all of the instructions it could execute. Your modern PC, though, has a lot of instructions, many of them meant for specialized ...

This paper provides an overview of the processor reorder buffer timeout and provides methodology to debug these types of system issues. Using the debug methods and debug tools suggested in this ...