A computer motherboard's bus speed has no effect on the installed CPU's speed. In a computer, the motherboard and the CPU are two separate components and do not impact the performance of one another.

The exponential growth rate of Internet traffic has caused a need for increasingly faster processing of encrypted data by network security processors which offload security functions from general ...

A Spymac thread posted this weekend reveals some screenshots and information about a feature of the new PowerMac G5's called "Slewing". Details on the various modes are provided in Apple's Developer ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Struggling processor maker Transmeta Corp., told the public today that its latest microprocessor, the TM8000, has three main bus connections including a graphics port, and is ...

Striving to deliver solutions for maximum overall system performance, embedded board vendors are now offering multiprocessor products featuring the most recent generation of DSP and RISC processors.

I'm trying to decide which hardware to get for me next box. This box will be running Distributed Computing in the background but it is not being bought for the sole purpose of DC. It will be my main ...

For many years, the 8-bit microcontroller has been the workhorse of embedded systems. Design teams favor the size and power benefits that a tightly coupled processor, such as the 8051 microcontroller, ...

When AMD released the first Athlon processor in August 1999, we were already told that its point-to-point processor bus, Alpha’s EV6, supports multi processor configuration. It took almost two years ...

For designs that incorporate or interface to an embedded CPU, processor driven tests can be a valuable addition to the suite of tests used to perform functional verification. Simply stated, Processor ...

High-end microcontrollers often use large, complex crossbar switches and other technologies to maximize throughput and performance. Low-end microcontrollers typically feature a simple bus structure.