User:Segin/Books/Processors

A guide to today's general programmable microprocessor.

 * Introduction
 * Central processing unit
 * Instruction (computer science)
 * Address space
 * SIMD
 * Bit
 * Hertz
 * Coprocessor
 * Clock signal
 * Floating point
 * Global Descriptor Table
 * Memory protection
 * Paging


 * Architecture
 * Memory Architecture
 * Von Neumann architecture
 * Harvard architecture


 * Instruction Set Architecture
 * Instruction set


 * Common Instruction Set Architectures
 * Complex instruction set computer
 * Reduced instruction set computer


 * Uncommon Instruction Set Architectures
 * Explicitly parallel instruction computing
 * Explicit Data Graph Execution
 * Minimal instruction set computer
 * One instruction set computer
 * Very long instruction word


 * Bus Width
 * 8-bit
 * 12-bit
 * 16-bit
 * 24-bit
 * 31-bit
 * 32-bit
 * 36-bit
 * 48-bit
 * 128-bit


 * General Information
 * Electrical bus
 * Switch
 * Relay


 * System Buses
 * Bus (computing)


 * Early Processors
 * DEC
 * Digital Equipment Corporation


 * DEC PDP
 * Programmed Data Processor
 * PDP-1
 * PDP-6
 * PDP-7
 * PDP-8
 * LINC-8
 * PDP-10


 * DEC PDP-11
 * PDP-11


 * DEC VAX
 * VAX


 * DEC Alpha
 * Intel
 * Intel Corporation


 * Early Intel
 * Intel 4004
 * Intel 4040
 * Intel 8008
 * Intel 8080
 * Intel 8085


 * Intel x86
 * X86
 * Intel 8086
 * Intel 8088
 * Intel 80186
 * Intel 80188
 * Intel 80286
 * Intel 80386
 * Intel 80486


 * Zilog Z80
 * Zilog Z80
 * HD64180
 * MMN80CPU
 * NEC µPD780C
 * Sharp LH0080
 * U880
 * Zilog Z180
 * Zilog Z280


 * Zilog Z8000
 * Zilog Z8000
 * Zilog Z80000


 * Other Zilog Processors
 * Zilog Z8


 * ARM
 * IBM POWER
 * IBM POWER
 * RS/6000
 * POWER6


 * PowerPC
 * PowerPC
 * PowerPC 600
 * PowerPC 970
 * PowerPC G4
 * AltiVec


 * Computer Systems
 * Cray
 * Cray
 * Cray-1
 * Cray-2
 * Cray X-MP
 * Cray Y-MP
 * Cray C90


 * Companies
 * Bc programming language
 * IBM 801
 * PWRficient
 * Motorola 68000
 * IA-32
 * X86 assembly language
 * Long mode
 * X86 memory segmentation
 * Real mode
 * LOADALL
 * Unreal mode
 * Local Descriptor Table
 * Advanced Micro Devices
 * X86-64
 * Pentium
 * Flat memory model
 * Gigabyte
 * Gigabit
 * CPU cache
 * Translation lookaside buffer
 * Symmetric multiprocessing
 * Asymmetric multiprocessing
 * Non-Uniform Memory Access
 * Hitachi Ltd.
 * Dynamic random access memory
 * Osborne 1
 * Altair 8800
 * Vacuum tube