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8. System Architecture and Integration

Corey Richard1  
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

Having completed our tour of RF and Wireless Technologies in the world of analog electronics, we will now shift our focus back to digital as we dive deeper into the computational workhorses of the semiconductor ecosystem – microprocessors. Microprocessors are the “brains” of computing systems – they contain the arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry necessary to execute instructions, process data, and run sophisticated software programs. With the most advanced personal computing microprocessors ...

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