- Washington State Parks (parks.wa.gov)
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission cares for Washington’s most treasured lands, waters, and historic places. State parks connect all Washingtonians to their diverse natural and cultural heritage and provide memorable recreational and educational experiences that enhance their lives.
- Beacon Rock State Park centers on the prominent rock monolith that rises more than 840 feet above the Columbia River, but the park’s landscapes and stories extend well beyond the rock.
- Beacon Rock State Park
- Beacon Rock State Park (parks.wa.gov)
Overlooking the Columbia River, Beacon Rock State Park is a great destination for hiking, technical climbing, horseback riding and biking. There are endless year-round vantage points to take in the extraordinary Columbia River Gorge views.
- Reverse engineering the Intel 386 processor’s register cell (righto.com)
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 line. It has numerous internal registers: general-purpose registers, index registers, segment selectors, and more specialized registers. In this blog post, I look at the silicon die of the 386 and explain how some of these registers are implemented at the transistor level. The registers that I examined are implemented as static RAM, with each bit stored in a common 8-transistor circuit, known as “8T”. Studying this circuit shows the interesting layout techniques that Intel used to squeeze two storage cells together to minimize the space they require.