With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

Forgive my ignorance, but how does a processor's multiplier work? That is, would a 1.6GHz Northwood-A (400MHz FSB) processor have a multiplier of 16 due to the fact that 16 X 100 (MHz FSB) = 1600 MHz?

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

This is the third installment in our CPU design series. In Part 1, we covered computer architecture and how a processor works at a high level. Part 2 explored the design and implementation of ...