Hackaday

The Inner Workings Of The Intel 8086’s Arithmetic Logic Unit

In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the ...
BBC

Higher: Resistors in a network

The following resistor network is set up. Calculate the total resistance of the network. This means that the three individual resistors can be replaced by one resistor of \({3.27}\Omega\). Adding ...
Hackaday

Isolated AC/DC Power Supply And Testing Station For 230 V Devices

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting ...
IEEE

SubtreeLU: High-Performance Parallel Sparse LU Factorization for Circuit Simulation

Abstract: Solving sparse linear systems via LU factorization remains a critical performance bottleneck in SPICE-based circuit simulation. Existing solvers such as NICSLU and CKTSO have introduced ...
IEEE

A practical approach for building a parallel firewall for ten gigabit Ethernet backbone

Abstract: In a very high-speed network environment such as gigabit Ethernet network, firewalls that have to inspect and filter all flowing packets are reaching their limits. A firewall running on a ...