Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target ...

On Dec. 3, 2025, Ethereum will activate the Fusaka upgrade on mainnet, its second major hard fork of the year after Pectra in May. Rollups now carry the bulk of Ethereum transactions and fee revenue, ...

Abstract: This article presents a new and efficient method based on power analysis, hierarchical recognition of instructions, and machine learning for reverse engineering of the instructions of ...

The debate between the Bitcoin (BTC) and Zcash (ZEC) communities intensified on Sunday as the price of Zcash recovered to over $700, after falling to a low of $598 on Saturday. “The ‘Bitcoin only, ...

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Abstract: Estimating the energy consumption of applications is a key aspect in optimizing embedded systems energy consumption. This paper proposes a simple yet accurate instruction-level energy ...

Consensus between 32bit and 64bit systems might fail due to a failure type conversion in the LDC opcode implementation [1]. Executing malicious LDC opcode leads to the different result (PanicReason) ...

Fuzzing—a testing technique that tries to find bugs by repeatedly executing test cases and mutating them—has traditionally been used to detect segmentation faults, buffer overflows, and other memory ...

Over the past decade I have been involved in several projects that have designed either instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions or clean-slate ISAs for various kinds of processors (you will even ...

Microsoft Excel was used for many purposes over the years from accounting to 3D rendering, yet implementing a 16-bit CPU in the spreadsheet is something else. Shown off by InkboxSoftware and viewable ...