Why an 8-bit microcontroller needs more than 8-bit arithmetic: A wide range of control applications uses data with more than 8 bits of precision. Most 8-bit microcontrollers can handle limited, ...

The developing team at Arith-Matic a British computational hardware project and micro startup, have created a new 4-bit arithmetic unit, designed to be provided in kit form and “beautifully dissects ...

If you like nitpicking around C code and generated assembly language — and we’ll admit that we do — you shouldn’t miss [Scaramanga’s] analysis of what’s known as Kernighan’s trick. If you haven’t ...

In this paper VHDL implementation of 8-bit Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) is presented. The design was implemented using VHDL Xilinx Synthesis tool ISE 13.1 and targeted for Spartan device. ALU was ...

Q: I’ve seen much news about 64-bit systems lately. Vendors claim 64 bits are faster than 32 bits, and it seems the fastest CPUs have 64-bit capability. Can I take advantage of 64-bit operations to ...