Looking At Standard-Cell Design in the Pentium processor
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/looking-at-standard-cell-design-in-the-pentium-processor/

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/looking-at-standard-cell-design-in-the-pentium-processor/)

Misconceptions About Loops, or: Static Code Analysis is Hard
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/misconceptions-about-loops-or-static-code-analysis-is-hard/

Control flow merges can create multiple loop entry
edges (Credit: Martin Brand, et al., SOAP 2024)
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/control_flow_merges_figure_3_martin_brand_et_al_2024.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/control_flow_merges_figure_3_martin_brand_et_al_2024.jpg?w=800">When thinking about loops in programming languages, they often get simplified down to a conditions section and a body, but this belies the dizzying complexity that emerges when considering loop …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/misconceptions-about-loops-or-static-code-analysis-is-hard/)

Build Your Own 16 MB 30-Pin SIMMs For Vintage PCs
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/build-your-own-16-mb-30-pin-simms-for-vintage-pcs/

Today’s memory sticks have hundreds of pins and many gigabytes of RAM on board. Decades ago, though, the humble 30-pin SIMM was the state of the art where memory was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/09/build-your-own-16-mb-30-pin-simms-for-vintage-pcs/)

Model Rocket Nails Vertical Landing After Three-Year Effort
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/model-rocket-nails-vertical-landing-after-three-year-effort/

Model rocketry has always taken cues from what’s happening in the world of full-scale rockets, with amateur rocketeers doing their best to incorporate the technologies and methods into their creations. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/model-rocket-nails-vertical-landing-after-three-year-effort/)

A New Raspberry 5 DSI Cable Makes Using Screens Easier
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/a-new-raspberry-5-dsi-cable-makes-using-screens-easier/

Arguably the greatest strength of the Raspberry Pi is the ecosystem — it’s well-supported by its creators and the aftermarket. At the same time, the proliferation of different boards has …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/a-new-raspberry-5-dsi-cable-makes-using-screens-easier/)

PCB Design Review: HAB Tracker With ATMega328P
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/pcb-design-review-hab-tracker-with-atmega328p/

Welcome to the Design Review Central! [VE3SVF] sends us their board, and it’s a HAB (High Altitude Balloon) tracker board. It’s got the venerable ATMega28P on it, a LoRa modem …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/pcb-design-review-hab-tracker-with-atmega328p/)

Bringing the 555 Mini-Notebook to Video
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/10/bringing-the-555-mini-notebook-to-video/