Questions tagged [hardware]
Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.
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How do I find what's causing a task to be slow, when CPU, memory, disk and network are not used at 100%?
I'm currently analyzing a process that is considered too slow. In summary, it's a task that loads a lot of data from Microsoft SQL Server, performs some basic stuff on it, and creates a report. It ...
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How can single thread execution speed further increase since frequency stagnates?
What are things that newer CPU can do to speed up single thread execution? multiple registers? (can compilers always benefit from it?) SIMD? (do compilers use SIMD without code annotation?) does a ...
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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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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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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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Trade-off between usability and clean design
I have designed our in-house hardware testing framework. My goal is to ultimately release the framework into the public domain. Early on, my foremost design criterion was to provide a powerful yet ...
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What do the Trapezoid-shaped boxes mean in this schematic diagram of RISC architectures (from Wirth's compiler construction)
I am currently browsing through Niklas Wirth's compiler construction book. He presents a simple RISC architecture as a target for code generation using the following diagram. The symbols/shapes used ...
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Am I using the correct terminology for my project?
I'm currently the sole programmer for a project. We are creating a handheld device that includes a screen to display live data and video feed, push buttons to control the program's functionalities, ...
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