Questions tagged [hardware]
Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.
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What is the absolute minimum set of instructions required to build a Turing complete processor
I have a general idea of how the processor handles instructions but spend my time working in mostly high level languages. Maybe somebody who works closer to the iron can provide some valuable insight.
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When does it become mandatory to sign up with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)?
My company is looking to add Bluetooth functionality to our hardware, so that we can integrate connectivity to our products with various tablet devices.
To do this, we are looking to purchase an all-...
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Are there any guidelines for calculating hardware requirements in a containerized environment?
At an architectural section of an interview I was asked to produce hardware requirements for a certain system I designed. It was a microservice-based system which runs in Kubernetes, Openshift or any ...
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Why XML is meant to be Software and Hardware independent?
While studying the features of XML, I got to know that XML is software and hardware independent. Can anyone explain me why it is meant like that?
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How is code put onto a motherboard?
I want to create my own little piece of hardware, (not sure what yet, but that's where the coding part comes in..) and I'm stuck at this little question.
I have the parts, but not the means.
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Building software frontend for hardware that does not yet exist
Our task is to build a software frontend to control a hardware device that does not yet exist. We should start development about half a year before the first prototype is available, the project is ...
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What is the history of why bytes are eight bits?
What were the historical forces at work, the tradeoffs to make, in deciding to use groups of eight bits as the fundamental unit?
There were machines, once upon a time, using other word sizes. But ...
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Design for hardware UIs
What is a suitable software design approach for handling user input from hardware buttons, where the function of each button depends on state?
I'm designing a musical instrument which has a lot of ...
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Can we reliably use unaligned scalars on contemporary hardware?
Processors have come a long way in their handling of unaligned data - from crashing at the very notion of it, through suffering severe penalties, all the way to having almost no impact.
I suppose it ...
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Accessing Hardware-based resources from multiple worker threads
I have a technical application that interacts with different hardware components: measurement devices, sensors, custom hardware. These use dedicated interfaces like USB, serial ports, TCP/IP ...
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Why are there separate L1 caches for data and instructions?
Just went over some slides and noticed that the L1 cache (at least on Intel CPUs) distinguishes between data and instruction cache, I would like to know why this is..
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Designing interfaces to hardware
I am writing a library in C++ that is used by customers to interface with hardware. There are many different devices that I need to support.
For the sake of simplicity, assume I have 2 Widgets, ...
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How do android developers develop BLE-Clients without BLE Hardware? [closed]
First an foremost I would like to apologise if this is a trivial question, however it has been costing me a few workdays worth of freetime and I am appearantly too incompetent to figure this out ...
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Modelling multi-device manufacture machinery software
We are building a multi-device (different vendors, different types) manufacture machinery where these device work together orchestrated by our software and operated by a human being to create various ...
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Is it viable to use imprecise analog computers to simulate equally artificial intelligence?
I was searching about simulation of artificial intelligence, machine learning and subjects alike and saw the news that some startups around of the world are using analog computers to simulate ...
