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. http://www.mdronline.com/

PiSMA Parallel computer architecture, called PiSMA: Parallel vIrtually Shared Memory Architecture. Article about securing confidential communication using authentication from ACM Crossroads site. http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-3/pisma.html

The Processor-Memory Bottleneck Problems and Solutions. From Crossroads site. http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-3/pmgap.html

Great Microprocessors Past and present v11.4.3. http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~bayko/cpu.html

WWW Computer Architecture Houses computer architecture and microprocessor information on conferences, benchmarks and tools, group projects, publications, books and newsgroups. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/

Atmel Wireless and Microcontrollers ICs for innovative solutions in RF, automotive and communications. http://www.atmel-wm.com/

Electronic Engineering Design Design of FPGAs and boards using C, Verilog, OrCad and PADS. http://www.rxydesign.com

BOPS, Inc. Develops and licenses scalable, broadband DSP cores used in communications, mobile multimedia, and wireless SOCs. http://www.bops.com/

ClearSpeed Floating point accelerator, coprocessor and data parallel processing for HPC, scientific and embedded computer chips. Programmed easily in C language. http://www.clearspeed.com/

Motorola Semiconductor Products Producer of embedded processors. SPS processor products are based on PowerPC, M-CORE, ColdFire, M68k, or M68HC cores. http://www.mot-sps.com/

IDT Silicon design company involved in MIPS technologies. http://www.idt.com/

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. http://www.mips.com/

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. http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.com/

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. http://www.research.ibm.com/vliw/

Powerleap Products CPU upgrade expert with product briefs, support, discussion forums and compatibility database. http://www.powerleap.com

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. http://www.trimedia.com/

IBM PowerPC Microprocessors Family of PPC processors with low power and high speed CPUs. http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/powerpc/

Improv Systems Inc. Supplier of configurable DSPs for communications and consumer products including VoIP, wireless, media processing, DSL, MPEG4 and audio engines. http://www.improvsys.com

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. http://www.synergymicro.com

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. http://fiddes.net/coldfire/