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COMP_ENG 452: Advanced Computer Architecture I

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An Energy-Efficient DRAM Cache Architecture for Mobile Platforms With PCM-Based Main Memory

“A long battery life is a first-class design objective for mobile devices, and main memory accounts for a major portion of total energy consumption. Moreover, the energy consumption from memory is ...
EDN

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 5. Crosscutting issues and the memory design of the ARM Cortex-A8

This section describes three topics discussed in other chapters that are fundamental to memory hierarchies. Protection and Instruction Set Architecture Protection is a joint effort of architecture and ...
EDN

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 1. Basics of Memory Hierarchies

Editor’s Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...
EURweb

Your Ultimate Guide to Your Computer’s Internal Memory

*160 terabytes … that’s the size of the world’s current largest single–memory computing system. Bearing in mind that a terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes, it’s unimaginable that such a computer ...