Not only is the Super Nintendo an all-around great platform, both during its prime in the 90s and now during the nostalgia craze, but its relative simplicity compared to modern systems makes it a lot ...

A new technical paper titled “Leveraging Chiplet-Locality for Efficient Memory Mapping in Multi-Chip Module GPUs” was published by researchers at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ...

A process may map files to its address space, thereby creating a 1-to-1 equivalence between the files’ data and its corresponding memory-mapped region. Memory mapping has several uses: Dynamic loading ...

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FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) becoming more popular, many designers want to reduce their component count and increase flexibility. To accomplish both of these goals, a microprocessor already ...

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...

This application note describes a simple and efficient FPGA configuration method that utilizes a microprocessor to configure an FPGA device from a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) flash memory. This ...