Hackaday2mon
Reverse-Engineering The Polynomial Constants In The Pentium’s FPU
In a recent blog post [Ken Shirriff] takes an up-close look at the FPU and associated ROMs in the Pentium die that enable its use of polynomials. Even with 3.1 million transistors, the Pentium die ...
Hackaday6d
The Pentium Processor’s Innovative (and Complicated) Method Of Multiplying By Three, Fast
Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s ...