When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

A system-chip targeting image and voice processing and recognition application domains is implemented as a representative of the potential of using programmable logic in system design. It features an ...

APEX-Optimized 32-bit Configurable Processor for Altera's Megafunction Partner Program (AMPP SM) High Performance MPU for Embedded Systems Web-based Xtensa Generator will Provide MPU Features ...

Volker Dolch, 59, a pioneer in microprocessor design who founded Dolch Logic Instruments in Germany in 1976 and Dolch Computer Systems in California in 1987, died of cancer at his home in Belvedere, ...

Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the story of how the first microprocessor was invented. This week, Masatoshi Shima of Busicom, tells how it was designed. Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Logic, an innovative product solutions company, announces the availability of the AM3517 System on Module (SOM) and the Zoom AM3517 eXperimenter Development Kit ...

The 4004 chip is 40 today, so it's about time it had a mid-life identity crisis. Its creation story is well known — here's ZDNet UK's coverage from its 30th birthday — and it is indeed the first ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logic PD today revealed the industry’s smallest embedded modules: the Torpedo System on Modules (SOM) based on Texas Instruments’ DM3730 DaVinci™ video processor and ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last post, I talked about the dawn of the ...