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Why is superheterodyning better than direct conversion?

signal-processing am band-pass amplitude-modulation superheterodyne asked Apr 13, 2019 at 14:33
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Triefen als starkes oder schwaches Verb

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How does the scheduler know that a thread is blocked waiting for input?

multithreading scheduler scheduling asked Nov 17, 2018 at 14:03
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What is a long section (fragment)? #pragma section (".rdata$T", long, read)

c visual-c++ object-files asked Mar 20, 2021 at 16:42
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The inner workings of Spectre (v2)

x86 intel cpu-architecture branch-prediction spectre asked Feb 5, 2019 at 18:49
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How do Intel CPUs that use the ring bus topology decode and handle port I/O operations

io x86 intel hardware cpu-architecture asked Mar 7, 2019 at 11:19
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Why do c and c++ treat redefinitions of uninitialised variables differently?

c++ c clang language-lawyer clang++ asked Mar 30, 2020 at 13:40
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How is the micro-op cache tagged?

cache intel-core-i7 cpu-architecture cpu-cache asked Oct 20, 2018 at 12:51
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How to get out of local minimums on stochastic gradient descent?

machine-learning neural-network gradient-descent asked Jan 21, 2019 at 11:34
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What happens to software interrupts in the pipeline?

x86 intel pipeline interrupt-handling asked Jan 29, 2019 at 18:51
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