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Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

The complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers

A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

Ever wonder how a quartz-based oscillator works?

A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (2023)

Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three

The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium

Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered

Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

Wealth Distribution in the United States

The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (2023)

Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane

Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip

The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving

The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

Reverse engineering XC2064, the first FPGA (2020)

Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

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