Collaborate Disseminate
AMD has fixed one high-severity vulnerability affecting its client and embedded processors; fixes for the other two will come out later in June. Continue reading AMD: Fixes For High-Severity SMM Callout Flaws Upcoming
The semester is wrapping up at Cornell, and that means it’s time for the final projects from [Bruce Land]’s lab. Every year we see some very cool projects, and this year is no exception. For their project, [Andre] and [Scott] implemented the audio processing unit (APU) of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This is the classic chiptune sound that regaled a generation with 8-bit sounds that aren’t really eight bits, with the help of a 6502 CPU that isn’t really a 6502 CPU.
Unlike the contemporaneous MOS 6581 SID, which is basically an analog synthesizer on a chip, the APU …read more
