22m ago Β· 13 min read Β· What if I told you that your processor, the thing capable of doing billions of operations per seconds, spends most of itβs time justβ¦ doing nothing? Not because it ran out of things to do, but rather
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May 31 Β· 16 min read Β· RAM is scarce. Processes are greedy. And yet, somehow, your laptop runs dozens of programs simultaneously without them trampling each other's data. The secret weapon is paging β a beautifully elegant
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May 26 Β· 14 min read Β· The Illusion Every Program Lives In Open your task manager. Notice that Chrome thinks it owns 4 GB of memory. Spotify thinks it owns 2 GB. Your IDE thinks it owns 8 GB. Add them up and you'll often ex
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May 17 Β· 7 min read Β· We spend millions on Next-Gen Firewalls, enterprise-grade EDRs, and highly advanced, AI-driven security architectures. Companies conduct rigorous patch management schedules every single week to ensure
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May 15 Β· 4 min read Β· Every program you run believes a quiet, comfortable lie. It thinks it has a vast, clean stretch of memory all to itself β starting neatly from address zero and stretching out as far as it needs. The s
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Feb 12 Β· 29 min read Β· Arithmetic is the beating heart of every processor. Whether your machine is rendering 3-D graphics, training a neural network, or simply incrementing a loop counter, the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) is doing the heavy lifting. In this deep-dive, I wan...
Join discussionFeb 3 Β· 8 min read Β· Introduction In the previous two posts, I explored why execution-driven simulation is essential for modeling modern processors and analyzed Issue #14 from the Olympia repository, which calls for adding execution-driven support. That discussion reveal...
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Feb 2 Β· 23 min read Β· Table of Contents Introduction What is a Compiler? The Compilation Process Overview Phases of a Compiler Lexical Analysis (Scanner) Syntax Analysis (Parser) Semantic Analysis Intermediate Code Generation Code Optimization Code Generation S...
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Feb 2 Β· 16 min read Β· In this article, I'll go over how to design a pipelined processor. The processor implements a Hennessy & Patterson-style MIPS RISC instruction set architecture. I provide some parts of the implementation in SystemVerilog. You can browse the full sour...
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