Basics of Memory Hierarchies: A Quick Review The increasing size and thus importance of this gap led to the migration of the basics of memory hierarchy into undergraduate courses in computer ...

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 ...

Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

The Computer Express Link, or CXL, protocol for cache and memory coherence is a big area of research and development these days, and Hot Chips hosted a tutorial on what it is, how it is evolving, and ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

The series will cover computer architecture, processor circuit design, VLSI (very-large-scale integration), chip fabrication, and future trends in computing.