MUNICH, Germany — For embedded applications in office automation, consumer electronics and industrial systems, Renesas has developed a new 32-bit microcontroller family. Now the company provided first ...

Renesas Technology (San Jose, CA) is developing a next-generation CISC architecture for 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers that is said to provide revolutionary enhancementsa reduction in code size by 30 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz — A recent study in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems came to the conclusion that processor instruction set architectures, whether reduced (RISC) or complex (CISC), are ...

Renesas Technology announces the development of the RX600 Series microcontrollers (MCUs), with performance capabilities of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) based MCUs. According to Renesas, the ...

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

Renesas Electronics has increased the performance of its RX processor core, with a 4.0 Coremark MHz or 2.0 DMIPS/MHz RXv2 core. The CISC microcontroller now has the DSP performance to execute complex ...

At the time that the iAPX 432 (originally the 8800) project was proposed, Gordon Moore was CEO of Intel, and thus ultimately signed off on it. Intended as an indirect successor to the successful 8080 ...

When it comes to personal computing, most of the growth today is in the mobile market, not traditional desktop PCs and laptops. You could say that the PC concept is morphing to include next-generation ...