https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/Recent content in Architectures on Werner StrydomHugoen-ushttps://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/sparc/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/sparc/Sun Microsystems’ RISC architecture, introduced in 1987 and 64-bit since the V9 specification. Oracle and Fujitsu built its last server generations; Solaris is its native operating system.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/power/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/power/IBM’s RISC lineage. POWER built servers and supercomputers; PowerPC, its 1991 offshoot with Apple and Motorola, spent a decade in every Macintosh and lives on in embedded systems.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/riscv/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/riscv/An open, royalty-free instruction set from UC Berkeley, published in the 2010s. Anyone may implement it, and everyone does — from fifty-cent microcontrollers to server-class processors.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/mips/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/mips/One of the first commercial RISC architectures, out of Stanford in the mid-eighties. It powered SGI workstations and nineties game consoles, and survives mostly in networking silicon.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/arm/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/arm/The most widely shipped instruction set there is, from Acorn roots in 1980s Cambridge. arm64 is its 64-bit architecture — phones, single-board computers, Apple silicon, and a growing share of servers.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/x86/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/x86/AMD’s 64-bit extension of Intel’s x86, first shipped in 2003 and since then the default architecture of desktops, laptops, and servers.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/xtensa/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/xtensa/Tensilica’s configurable embedded architecture, best known as the core inside Espressif’s ESP32 Wi-Fi microcontrollers.https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/fpga/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wernerstrydom.com/lab/architectures/fpga/Not an instruction set at all: programmable logic you configure into whatever hardware you need — including processors that never shipped as silicon.