Links

• ​RISC-V - Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture.

• ​Digging into RISC-V and how I learn new things (2019)​

• ​SHAKTI - Open-source Processor Development Ecosystem.

• ​I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code (2019)​

• ​Simple Computer - Whilst reading But How Do It Know? by J. Clark Scott I felt compelled to write something to simulate the computer the book describes.

• ​Awesome CPU and MCU documentation​

• ​How do CPUs read machine code? (2019)​

• ​CPU Microcodes - Intel, AMD, VIA & Freescale CPU Microcode Repositories.

• ​CPU Scheduling​

• ​uarch-bench - Benchmark for low-level CPU micro-architectural features.

• ​Performance Analysis & Tuning on Modern CPU - Denis Bakhvalov (2020)​

• ​x86 and amd64 instruction reference​

• ​IA32-doc - Project which aims to put as many definitions from the Intel Manual into machine-processable format as possible.

• ​CPU caches and data locality: a small demonstration (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​What is a stack and how does it work? (2020)​

• ​Branch prediction explained​

• ​x86-info-term - Terminal viewer for x86 instruction/intrinsic information using Python 3 + curses.

• ​Cosmic - Stellar simulated 8-bit computer architecture.

• ​Optimized implementations of various library functions for ARM architecture processors​

• ​Chipping away at Moore's law. Modern CPUs are just chiplets connected together (2020)​

• ​SIMD instructions (HN)

• ​Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you've never heard of (2014) (HN)

• ​X86-64 Semantics - Complete and thoroughly tested formal semantics of x86-64 to date.

• ​Efficient and performance-portable SIMD wrapper​

• ​The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter (2020) (HN)

• ​Unicorn Engine - Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework. (Code)

• ​afl-unicorn - Lets you fuzz any piece of binary that can be emulated by Unicorn Engine.

• ​Archspec - Library for detecting, labeling, and reasoning about microarchitectures.

• ​Branch prediction in CPUs​

• ​Examining ARM vs X86 Memory Models with Rust (2020) (HN)

• ​Single-use JIT Performance on x86 Processors (HN)

• ​ARMRef - iOS, iPadOS, and macOS application reference manual for ARM assembly instructions.

• ​Produce your own physical chips. For free. In the Open. (2020) (HN)

• ​Improving performance with SIMD intrinsics in three use cases (2020) (HN)

• ​Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage (2020)​

• ​An Intel 8080 assembler and online simulator (2020)​

• ​CoreMark - Industry-standard benchmark that measures the performance of central processing units (CPU) and embedded microcrontrollers (MCU).

• ​How Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography works (2020)​

• ​SIMDe - Implementations of SIMD instruction sets for systems which don't natively support them. (HN)

• ​Itanium Processor Microarchitecture (2000)​

• ​Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM)​

• ​sse2neon - C/C++ header file that converts Intel SSE intrinsics to Arm/Aarch64 NEON intrinsics.

• ​Toward the 1nm Technology Generation: Imec Roadmap for Logic Technology (2020)​

• ​Gperftools CPU Profiler​

• ​VSCode JS Profile Visualizer - Custom editor for viewing .cpuprofile files in VS Code. Pairs well with new JavaScript debugger.

• ​LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction (2020) (HN)

• ​How Debuggers Work: Getting and Setting x86 Registers (2020)​

• ​Taiwan Semiconductor - Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company.

• ​AMD Research Instruction Based Sampling Toolkit​

• ​Dynarmic - Dynamic recompiler for ARM.

• ​Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor (2020) (HN)

• ​ARM Memory Model Tool: Morello (and Some Memory Tagging) (2020)​

• ​Graphs, Metagraphs, RAM, CPU: HyperGraphs are more memory efficient than graphs (2020)​

• ​Intel's disruption is now complete (2020) (HN)

• ​ARM processor history (2020)​

• ​Bitdefender disassembler - Lightweight, x86/x64 only instruction decoder.

• ​Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs book​

• ​Under the hood of a CPU: Reverse Engineering the P6 microcode | Peter Bosch (2020)​

• ​2020 Wheeler Lecture: The Future of Microprocessors​

• ​c8c - Aims to be a small typeless programming language for the CHIP-8 virtual machine.

• ​vrCPU - Code, documentation, schematics, notes for my Ben Eater inspired breadboard computer and emulator.

• ​ARM and Lock-Free Programming (2020)​

• ​Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? (2020) (HN)

• ​Collection of information about ARM cortex-M​

• ​Ask HN: How did Apple manage to create such a better chip than Intel? (2020)​

• ​ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing (2020)​

• ​The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me (2020)​

• ​sandsifter - x86 processor fuzzer.

• ​Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1 (Reddit)

• ​MIPS-Simulator - Functional MIPS CPU simulator implemented in Haskell.

• ​From microops to abstract resources: constructing simpler CPU performance models (2020)​

• ​Let's Build a Microprocessor! - From NAND to RISC, using JavaScript as a HDL.

• ​ARM NEON intrinsics guide​

• ​ASL Interpreter - Example implementation of Arm's Architecture Specification Language (ASL). (Fork)

• ​Corellium - ARM Device Virtualization. (GitHub)

• ​Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps (HN)

• ​Fritzchens Fritz's Albums - Gorgeous high resolution die shots of (mostly) modern chips.

• ​Lobsters: How much are non x86/arm platforms used? (2021)​

• ​MIPS Emulator written in Go​

• ​The CPU Shack - History of Microprocessors & CPU Techo.

• ​The 486 CPU Era – The Birth of Overclocking (2021)​

• ​How CPUs are Designed and Built (2020)​

• ​Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture: SVE2, Security, and the Next Decade (2021) (HN)

• ​Our Journey to ARM | PSPDFKit (2021)​

• ​Understanding modern state-of-the-art branch predictor (2021)​

• ​Application Binary Interface for the Arm Architecture​