I'm designing a five stage basic MIPS pipeline and ran into a small question. Why is the PC register 32 bits wide? Doesn't it just specify the address of the Instruction Memory to go to? Intuitively ...
The nRF51 Series SoCs is a family of low power Bluetooth chips from Nordic Semiconductor that is based on ARM Cortex cores. The nRF51822 has the Cortex M0 core and is used in a lot of products. [Loren ...
The area of any part of a design contributes both to the silicon cost and to the power consumption. A simplistic following of the “A” in a processor IP vendor’s PPA numbers can be misleading. A ...