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How do microcontrollers achieve > 1 MIPS/MHz performance?

Like this one, which does 1.49 DMIPS/MHz. Even with pipelining there's still only 1 execute stage per cycle isn't it?
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Microcontroller/cpu for fast trigonometry in robot?

This concerns hardware that does weighs little, because a (fat cat sized, 6 legs with 3 DOF) walking robot should carry it around. Because of that walking it'll need to do a lot of trigonometry (using ...
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How does a Cortex M0 perform compared to 8-bit controllers?

This document cites 60 DMIPS/mW for a Cortex M0, vs 31 DMIPS/mW for an M3. (The latter doesn't agree with the numbers in this document, which cite 1.25 DMIPS/MHz and 0.19 mW/MHz, giving 6.6 DMIPS/mW.) ...
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Arduino: faster alternatives to digitalread() and digitalwrite()?

What are the fastest alternatives to calling the Arduino functions digitalread() and digitalwrite()? AVR-specific or ...
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Does using only NAND/NOR gates increase circuit delay?

I remember learning in school that one can construct any logical circuit from solely NAND or NOR gates. First of all, I am ...
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Improving throughput of a Bluetooth Low Energy Connection

Follow-Up question from Stackoverflow I am trying to write a characteristic value repeatedly over a short amount of time. Different sources tell that rates between 200 and 305 kbit / s should be ...
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Simulating Multiple Feedback Low Pass filter using LTSPICE

I am trying to simulate the follwoing circuit in LTSpice IV. What I am looking for is overall performance in frequency domain. I downloaded and readed a lot of LTSpice guides, but none of them were ...