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Unité de calcul en virgule flottante
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CORDIC
CORDIC (sigle de COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer, « calcul numérique par rotation de coordonnées ») est un algorithme de calcul des fonctions trigonométriques et hyperboliques, notamment utilisé dans les calculatrices. Il a été décrit pour la première fois en 1959 par Jack E. Volder. Il ressemble à des techniques qui avaient été décrites par Henry Briggs en 1624. Il s'agit d'un algorithme de choix lorsque aucune implantation matérielle d'un multiplicateur n'est disponible (sur certains microcontrôleurs simples ou des FPGA).
Bobcat (microarchitecture)
The AMD Bobcat Family 14h is a microarchitecture created by AMD for its AMD APUs, aimed at a low-power/low-cost market. It was revealed during a speech from AMD executive vice-president Henri Richard in Computex 2007 and was put into production Q1 2011. One of the major supporters was executive vice-president Mario A. Rivas who felt it was difficult to compete in the x86 market with a single core optimized for the 10–100 W range and actively promoted the development of the simpler core with a target range of 1–10 W.
Instruction cycle
The instruction cycle (also known as the fetch–decode–execute cycle, or simply the fetch-execute cycle) is the cycle that the central processing unit (CPU) follows from boot-up until the computer has shut down in order to process instructions. It is composed of three main stages: the fetch stage, the decode stage, and the execute stage. In simpler CPUs, the instruction cycle is executed sequentially, each instruction being processed before the next one is started.