ARM
Amulet Group, ARM Documentation, ARM Instruction Formats/Timings, ARM Ltd., Bluewater Systems, Cirrus Logic, Inc.: Embedded Processors, Intel XScale Microarchitecture
Minimal
4stack Processor, Enumera, Inc., Forth Chips, Java Optimized Processor, JFAR: Journal of Forth Application and Research: v, Minimal Instruction Set Computers, MSL16 Processor, NASA: Space Related Applications of Forth, New Micros, Inc., Overview of the E16 CPU
Open Source
CMOSexod.com, E-Risc, Google Groups: Free SPARC VHDL model available, LEON-1 VHDL model, picoJava Core, Press: Sun Extends Community Source Licensing to C, STM, The Freedom CPU, TRON VLSI CPU
SPARC
CNET News.com: Sun releases complete chip design f, SPARC International, Inc., SPARC Product Directory, Sun Microsystems, Inc., TechWeb: Sun Offers Open-Source SPARC
Transmeta
CNET News.com: Transmeta might come out of hiding , Crusoe, Crusoe's Companion Website, Drilling Deeper into Torvald's Transmeta, Linux Creator Offers Sneak Peak Into Goal Of Micro, salon 21st: The Transmeta enigma, Secretive start-up Transmeta takes aim at Intel, Transmeta, TransmetaZone
x86
3DNow.net, AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Centaur Technology, Elbrus International, Evergreen Technologies, Inc., Intel Corp., JC's PC News'n'Links, Sandpile.org, The PC Technology Guide, Wired News: AMD Throws Down the Gauntlet
Amberwave Systems
Produces high-speed, high-transconductance devices that are optimized to perform in digital, analog, or mixed signal systems.
Atmel Wireless and Microcontrollers
ICs for innovative solutions in RF, automotive and communications.
ClearSpeed
Floating point accelerator, coprocessor and data parallel processing for HPC, scientific and embedded computer chips. Programmed easily in C language.
Hyperstone Electronics GmbH
RISC/DSP processors, flash memory controllers and cards (and compact cards), ASIC design, IP hardware, biometric devices, digital still cameras.
IBM PowerPC Microprocessors
Family of PPC processors with low power and high speed CPUs.
IBM Research: VLIW
Very-Long Instruction Word architectures: an alternative way to organize processors. Instead of the trend toward hardware making complex decisions for scheduling machine-level instructions in programs, VLIW systems do scheduling at compile time.
Improv Systems Inc.
Supplier of configurable DSPs for communications and consumer products including VoIP, wireless, media processing, DSL, MPEG4 and audio engines.
MicroDesign Resources
An information services company focused on enabling technology for personal computers and the high-performance microprocessor industry. Our work is aimed at engineers and others who need to understand and select new technologies.
MIPS Technologies, Inc.
Makes popular RISC CPU used in consumer electronics, SONY Playstations, some SGI workstations. Initiated MIPS instruction set. Now an independent company developing microprocessor cores and intellectual property to license to other firms.
Mitsubishi Semiconductors
Provides chip, chipset and system-on-chip solutions for computers, communications, consumer, industrial, Internet-enabled, automotive, and visual applications.
Motorola ColdFire Development Resources
Dedicated to the Motorola ColdFire series of Processors with info on how to use GNU C, RTEMS and other free tools to assist embedded development.
PiSMA
Parallel computer architecture, called PiSMA: Parallel vIrtually Shared Memory Architecture. Article about securing confidential communication using authentication from ACM Crossroads site.
Powerleap Products
CPU upgrade expert with product briefs, support, discussion forums and compatibility database.
Rabbit Semiconductor
Fabless semiconductor firm. Focus: microprocessors and development tools for embedded controls. Rabbit is low power, high performance 8-bit microprocessor, clock speed to 30 MHz, integrated development tools support remote coding.
Synergy Microsystems, Inc.
Manufacturers of VME and CompactPCI SBCs with dual or single PowerPC 750 or G4 microprocessors. Produces the powerful quad processor, VME DSP with Linux Symmetric Multiprocessing.
Synopsys Synthesizable VHDL LC-2 Model
Simple programmable processor defined in the popular introductory textbook.
The Processor-Memory Bottleneck
Problems and Solutions. From Crossroads site.
TriMedia Technologies
Products include high performance VLIW architecture IP cores, embedded media processors, video processors, audio processors, system on chip solutions, an MPEG-2 decoder and MPEG-4 encoder, and application libraries.
VipLibrary
Explore architectures and solutions, to move from prototype to final product with the same code.
WWW Computer Architecture
Houses computer architecture and microprocessor information on conferences, benchmarks and tools, group projects, publications, books and newsgroups.