• Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) is a technology designed to improve security for reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors...
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    CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) is a computer processor technology designed to improve security. It operates at a hardware level...
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    formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer...
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  • hardware acceleration for AES, GHASH, SHA-256, SHA-512, SM3, and SM4. Before the AES-specific instructions were available on RISC-V, a number of RISC-V...
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    performing two valid instructions consecutively, performing strange mixtures of two instructions, or simply doing nothing at all. Some hardware designers used...
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  • Microcode (redirect from Micro-instructions)
    unit (CPU) hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of a computer. It consists of a set of hardware-level instructions that implement...
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  • time of the Ottoman Empire, from the Turkish şer’(i) Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, a computer architecture research project Chari (disambiguation)...
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    fewer registers than many RISC instruction sets (e.g. Power ISA has 32 GPRs; 64-bit ARM, RISC-V I, SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, and PA-RISC have 31) or VLIW-like machines...
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  • ISA Version 3.0". IBM. November 30, 2015. p. 1003. "PA-RISC 1.1 Architecture and Instruction Set Reference Manual, Third Edition" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard...
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    save instructions and the use of registers for address calculations such as scaling an index.) Some special instructions lost priority in the hardware design...
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  • developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. The ISA is used as base for high end microprocessors from IBM during...
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  • Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA): A-1 : 19  developed by MIPS...
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    Microprocessor (section RISC)
    advanced—with a superscalar RISC core, 64-bit bus, and internally overclocked—it could still execute Series 32000 instructions through real-time translation...
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    Acorn Archimedes (category RISC OS)
    Arthur operating system, with later models introducing RISC OS and, in a separate workstation range, RISC iX. The first Archimedes models were introduced in...
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    PIC microcontrollers (category Microchip Technology hardware)
    compilers. PIC instruction sets vary from about 35 instructions for the low-end PICs to over 80 instructions for the high-end PICs. The instruction set includes...
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    History of general-purpose CPUs (category History of computing hardware)
    reduced instruction set computing (RISC). RISCs usually had larger numbers of registers, accessed by simpler instructions, with a few instructions specifically...
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    Itanium (category Very long instruction word computing)
    reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures caused by the great increase in complexity needed for executing multiple instructions per cycle...
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    they take, is to execute a sequence of stored instructions that is called a program. The instructions to be executed are kept in some kind of computer...
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    VAX (section Instruction set)
    instructions to save the data and another 16 to restore it. Using the mask, a single 16-bit value performs the same operations internally in hardware...
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    EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology) in E5365, L5335 Execute Disable Bit TXT, enhanced security hardware extensions SSSE3 SIMD instructions iAMT2...
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  • broader]; the Super NES, even with the enhancement provided by the second-generation Super FX co-processor – a 21.4MHz RISC chip – still fell significantly short...
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    system introduced in MIPS64 release 5, 5 instructions LoongBT, faster x86 and ARM binary translation, 213 instructions LoongSIMD, formerly LoongMMI (in Loongson...
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    units and the traditional uniformity of the instruction set favors superscalar dispatch (this was why RISC designs were faster than CISC designs through...
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    model as well. The new instructions include some minor improvements and extensions to the supervisor state, several instructions for software management...
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    hardware devices of ARM, RISC-V and x86 architectures with memory volumes ranging from as small as 128 KB up to more than 1 MB. It supports hardware devices...
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    complex memory-to-memory instructions, all of which place it firmly in the CISC camp. Unlike register-heavy load/store RISC CPUs, the transputer had only...
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    The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated...
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    The list of Super NES enhancement chips demonstrates Nintendo hardware designers' plan to expand the Super Nintendo Entertainment System with special coprocessors...
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    and capable of 2 GFLOPS (single-precision). Epiphany's RISC processors use a custom instruction set architecture (ISA) optimised for single-precision floating-point...
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    History of personal computers (category History of computing hardware)
    platform waned. The capability of RISC OS to run entirely from ROM and the use of a low power CPU made it suited for embedded applications. RISC OS was used in...
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