Reverse-engineering the 8086 processor's address and data pin circuits

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode

Fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe (2015)

The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor

The Group Decode ROM: The 8086 processor's first step of instruction decoding

The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations

Reverse-engineering the division microcode in the Intel 8086 processor

Reverse-engineering the register codes for the 8086 processor's microcode

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

Reverse-engineering the multiplication algorithm in the Intel 8086 processor

Reverse-engineering the electronics in the Globus analog navigational computer

How the 8086 processor determines the length of an instruction

Reverse-engineering the ModR/M addressing microcode in the Intel 8086 processor

Reverse-engineering the interrupt circuitry in the Intel 8086 processor

Silicon reverse-engineering: the Intel 8086 processor's flag circuitry

Inside the amazingly mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer

Reverse-engineering the conditional jump circuitry in the 8086 processor

Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight

8086 Processor's microcode pipeline from die analysis

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8086 processor's HALT circuits

Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977

Inside the 8086 Processor's Instruction Prefetch Circuitry

The x86's Decimal Adjust after Addition (DAA) instruction

A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best

How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works

A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon

The unusual bootstrap drivers inside the 8086 microprocessor chip

The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the (almost) first, forgotten microprocessor

Reverse-engineering a 1960s hybrid flip flop module with X-ray CT scans

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