I am working on a project for my assembly language programming class and the prof has us writing a program to calculate fibonacci numbers but we need to make only 1 recursive call. Here is my ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

[Editor's note: Part 2 of this series shows how to optimize DSP “kernels,” i.e., inner loops. For more programming tips, see the DSP programmer’s guide.] DSP applications typically have tough ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...