EDN

Building a 4-Bit Computer: The Instruction Set

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...
China Internet Information Center

Major Chinese chip designer unveils new computer instruction set

Major Chinese chip designer Loongson on Thursday unveiled LoongArch, its new generation, self-developed computer instruction set. The Loongson operation system, based on the new instruction set, has ...
EDN

Instruction Set Architecture

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is a set of instructions defined for the processor’s architecture. These are the instructions that the processor understands. It defines the hardware and software ...
ZDNet

AMD says goodbye to 3DNow! instruction set

Introduced in 1998, 3DNow! was AMD's answer to the growing multimedia demands being placed on the K6-2 silicon of the day. Today AMD has announced that the instruction set is being deprecated. AMD ...