A group of computer scientists at UC Berkeley developed the basis for RISC-V in 2010 as a teaching tool for chip design. Proprietary central processing units (CPUs) were too complicated and opaque ...

Udemy's The Foundation of Computer Design course ($14.99) strives to give you a firm understanding of the bare basics of computer design. After sitting through the two-hour course, I can say that ...

This may be the most minimal computer that we’ve ever seen running BASIC. Hackaday.io user [Kodera2t] has been working through the history of computing, so after his 4-bit CPU, he stepped up … ...

The course will go beyond basic architecture and design to explore real-world details involved in the design of actual hardware products. Although focused on MCUs, many of these topics are relevant to ...

If you are thinking of a career in Electronics Design or looking at a career change, this is a great course to enhance your career opportunities. Prior knowledge needed: ECEA 5360 Introduction to FPGA ...

Thomas E. Kurtz with an early computer at Dartmouth in the early 1960s. He worked to make computers more accessible to all students, not just those in technical fields — a novel idea at the time ...

“The basic architecture of the computer has remained unchanged since the 1940s. We feel, given the kinds of problems we see today, [that] this is the time to start looking for new forms of ...