In this installment, the author offers a detailed look at how device drivers handle management of an embedded system's overall memory subsystem. Adapted from “Embedded Systems Architecture ... up for ...

Understand the architecture of a basic computer system and its components ... Design pipeline processor including datapath and control, and design to detect and resolve hazards. • Understand memory ...

Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann ... Week 6: VLIW, vector processors, multimedia targeted instruction sets. Memory system design introduction. Week 7: Memory ...

Exponential increases in data and demand for improved performance to process that data has spawned a variety of new approaches to processor design and packaging ... solution stack — software to ...

During the 1970s many different computer architectures ... an object-based memory architecture, rather than the low-level, flat memory space that we usually see with computer systems.

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes ... In traditional desktop and laptop computer design, the main system memory known as RAM sits on a system bus which is separate from ...