• computer architecture, 16-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 16 bits (2 octets) wide. Also, 16-bit central processing...
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  • personal computing. Many 16-bit CPUs already existed in the mid-1970s. Over the next 30 years, the shift to 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit computing allowed...
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  • 8-bit CPUs are generally larger than 8-bit, usually 16-bit. 8-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 8-bit microprocessors. The term '8-bit' is...
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  • 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in a maximum of 32-bit units...
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  • 16-bit computing is computing with 16-bit addresses or units of data. 16-bit or variants may also refer to: 16-bit era of video game consoles 16bit (band)...
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  • In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number. In computing, the least significant bit (LSb) is...
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  • microprocessor (Toshiba)" (PDF). Semiconductor History Museum of Japan. Retrieved 27 June 2019. DIGITAL Computing Timeline: 12-bit architecture v t e...
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  • more after this causes the game to crash. 4,294,967,295 255 (number) 16-bit computing In Altar 4k BASIC (1975), Tiny BASIC Extended (1976), 6800 Tiny BASIC...
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  • bits of certain data types 16-bit computing A 16-bit integer can represent up to 65,536 values. In the 16-bit era, 16-bit microprocessor ran 16-bit applications...
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  • 4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic...
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    and microprocessors quickly moved from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit over a period of a decade. The number of 36-bit machines rapidly fell during this period...
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  • on a 32-bit machine, a data structure containing a 16-bit value followed by a 32-bit value could have 16 bits of padding between the 16-bit value and...
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  • architecture, 512-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 512 bits (64 octets) wide. Also, 512-bit central processing...
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  • computer architecture, 24-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 24 bits (3 octets) wide. Also, 24-bit central processing unit...
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  • Stochastic computing is a collection of techniques that represent continuous values by streams of random bits. Complex computations can then be computed by simple...
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    such a processor is a 64-bit computer. From the software perspective, 64-bit computing means the use of machine code with 64-bit virtual memory addresses...
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  • In computer architecture, 48-bit integers can represent 281,474,976,710,656 (248 or 2.814749767×1014) discrete values. This allows an unsigned binary...
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  • Bit-level parallelism is a form of parallel computing based on increasing processor word size. Increasing the word size reduces the number of instructions...
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  • architecture, 31-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 31 bits wide. In 1983, IBM introduced 31-bit addressing in the...
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  • In computing, a word is any processor design's natural unit of data. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware...
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    1-bit systems. Opcodes for at least one 1-bit processor architecture were 4-bit and the address bus was 8-bit. While 1-bit computing is obsolete, 1-bit...
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  • architecture, 256-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 256 bits (32 octets) wide. Also, 256-bit central processing...
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  • reset – 1-bit computing16-bit computing – 16550 UART – 1NF – 1TBS – 20-GATE – 20-GATE – 2B1D – 2B1Q – 2D – 2NF – 3-tier (computing) – 32-bit application...
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  • Byte (redirect from 8-bit byte)
    representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided...
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  • Computers designed with 45-bit words are quite rare. One 45-bit computer was the Soviet Almaz [ru] ("Diamond") computer. 60-bit computing Malashevich, B.M.; Malashevich...
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  • In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. This reduced precision makes them ill-suited for general-purpose numerical...
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    uses 16 bits per sample, and DVD-Audio and Blu-ray Disc, which can support up to 24 bits per sample. In basic implementations, variations in bit depth...
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    In computing jargon, the bit bucket (or byte bucket) is where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is...
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  • In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern...
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    Hamming weight (redirect from Bit summation)
    of each 8 bits into those 8 bits x += x >> 8; //put count of each 16 bits into their lowest 8 bits x += x >> 16; //put count of each 32 bits into their...
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