In engineering, hardware architecture refers to the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships. This description, often...

assurance stage. The most common instruction set architecture (ISA)—the interface between a computer's hardware and software—is based on the one devised by...

Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...

Look up hardware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hardware may refer to: Electronic hardware, interconnected electronic components which perform analog...

of functionality onto hardware and software components, a mapping of the software architecture onto the hardware architecture, and human interaction...

wider variety of software. Pin architecture: The hardware functions that a microprocessor should provide to a hardware platform, e.g., the x86 pins A20M...

processor extensions to the x86 architecture called Intel VT-x and AMD-V, respectively. On the Itanium architecture, hardware-assisted virtualization is known...

systems, with software architecture, hardware architecture and network architecture covering more specific aspects. Business architecture, defined as "a blueprint...

the architecture of a computer system. This is generally hardware-enforced by some CPU architectures that provide different CPU modes at the hardware or...

Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in software that provide programs with access to hardware resources through programming interfaces. The programming...