This installment, which examines the memory hierarchy design of the Intel Core i7; reviews fallacies and pitfalls memory hierarchy design; and concludes with a look ahead. Adapted from “ Computer ...

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 4. Virtual memory and virtual machines, which examined architecture support for protecting processes from each other via virtual memory and the role of virtual machines; ...

In fact, one can expect that a significant portion of the transistors in an MPSoC-based architecture will be devoted to the memory hierarchy. There are at least two major (and complementary) ways of ...