Components of PLC Control Systems

Components of PLC Control Systems

The hardware of a PLC mainly consists of several parts: the Central Processing Unit (CPU), memory, input units, output units, communication interfaces, expansion interfaces, and power supply.The CPU is the core of the PLC, while the input and output units serve as the interface circuits connecting field input/output devices to the CPU. The communication interface … Read more

The RISC-V Ecosystem Explosion: How Open Source Architecture is Reshaping Future Computing from Edge AI to ‘Explosive CPUs’

The RISC-V Ecosystem Explosion: How Open Source Architecture is Reshaping Future Computing from Edge AI to 'Explosive CPUs'

“Hardcore players leave Intel: vowing to create the ‘most explosive CPU’.” 01 — Andes Technology releases AndesSight™ v5.4 Integrated Development Environment, supporting RISC-V AI and embedded development AndeSight Trade IDE v5.4 is the latest IDE tool launched by Andes for RISC-V to accelerate AI and embedded applications, enhancing vectorization strategies, debugging efficiency, NN library optimization … Read more

Understanding ASIC, CPU, FPGA, CGRA, and GPU Architectures

Understanding ASIC, CPU, FPGA, CGRA, and GPU Architectures

ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. An ASIC is designed for a specific application, optimized for a particular task or function, but its wiring and connections are fixed and cannot be changed. For example, Bitcoin mining chips and mobile image processing units. CPU Handles general tasks. A CPU operates using SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), which is … Read more

Arm to Launch Next-Generation Flagship CPU IP ‘Travis’ This Year, Part of MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 Mobile Platform

Arm to Launch Next-Generation Flagship CPU IP 'Travis' This Year, Part of MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 Mobile Platform

Chris Bergey, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Arm’s Client Products Division, recently attended a media event in Beijing, where he stated that Arm’s next-generation flagship CPU IP “Travis” will achieve a double-digit percentage IPC improvement over the existing Cortex-X925.“Travis” is set to launch later this year, and it will also be the first … Read more

The Reasons Behind Japan’s Decline in the Semiconductor Industry

The Reasons Behind Japan's Decline in the Semiconductor Industry

On June 8, Japan’s “Diamond” Weekly published an article by Yuki Noguchi, an advisor at Waseda University’s Business and Finance Research Center, titled “What Are the Fundamental Reasons for the Decline of Japan’s Semiconductor Industry?” It is commonly believed that the decline of Japan’s semiconductor industry is due to technology outflow and poor investment decisions, … Read more

Latest Smartphone SoC Processor Rankings for May 2025: CPU and GPU Comprehensive Performance Ladder Chart

Latest Smartphone SoC Processor Rankings for May 2025: CPU and GPU Comprehensive Performance Ladder Chart

The smartphone processor rankings for May 2025 have been updated again, incorporating the latest released smartphone SoCs. This time, the optimization ratio for CPU and GPU performance scores has been re-evaluated, and some smartphone SoCs have been appropriately adjusted in the rankings, with continuous optimization of the ladder chart. Thank you for your feedback! In … Read more

Russia’s Self-Developed Chips: Surviving in a Tight Spot

Russia's Self-Developed Chips: Surviving in a Tight Spot

👆If you wish to meet regularly, feel free to star 🌟 and bookmark it~Source: Content fromtomshardware, thank you. Since its establishment in 2012, Russian CPU developer Baikal Electronics has successfully produced and sold 85,000 processors. According to CNews, although the company has designed CPUs for various applications, the majority of the 85,000 CPUs were low-end … Read more

Are Giants Like Huawei Joining the RISC-V Camp to Compete Against ARM?

Are Giants Like Huawei Joining the RISC-V Camp to Compete Against ARM?

In media reports, ARM mini China is set to IPO in mainland China. Following this, online discussions have linked this event with the development of RISC-V by the Berkeley research team in the United States, which has attracted over 100 technology companies including IBM, NXP, Western Digital, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, and Huawei to join … Read more

Industry Research: The Advantages of FPGA Over CPU

Industry Research: The Advantages of FPGA Over CPU

Click the “blue text” above to follow for more exciting content. This article contains a total of 835 words, and reading it will take about 2 minutes. The significant advantage of FPGA over CPU lies in its deterministic low latency, which is due to architectural differences.The latency of a CPU is non-deterministic; as utilization increases, … Read more

Industry Research: The Differences in Processing Flows of CPU, GPU, and FPGA

Industry Research: The Differences in Processing Flows of CPU, GPU, and FPGA

Click the “blue text” above to follow for more exciting content. This article contains a total of 900 words, and it takes about 2 minutes to read. The processor is responsible for processing external input data, and the differences between processors such as CPU, GPU, and FPGA lie in their processing flows. The processing flow … Read more