COURSE GOALS: Learn how to build the best processor/computing system understanding the underlying tradeoffs and ramifications. PREREQUISITES BY COURSES: COMP_ENG 361 or consent of the instructor.

It seems more vendors are looking beyond the x86 architecture for the big leaps in performance needed to power things like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Google and IBM have ...

Cell contains a central core based on the PowerPC scalar architecture, and eight additional vector processing cores. Learning to program such hybrid parallel systems efficiently will be a challenge.

­ shadow memory module for fast rewriting of the PE's operation codes that is needed for dynamically reconfiguration PE array during data processing; control unit for the execution of instructions ...

The NX27V is an RV64GC vector processor that supports the RISC-V Vector specification with up to 512-bit VLEN and SIMD width (or DLEN). It allows SoC designers to create next-generation ...

X-Silicon has introduced the NanoTile open-standard low-power ‘C-GPU’ architecture that infuses GPU acceleration into a RISC-V Vector CPU Core with tightly coupled memory for a monolithic processor ...

(1) A computer architecture that performs more than one operation at the same time. See multicore, multithreading, GPGPU, pipeline processing and vector processor. (2) Using multiple computers ...

Despite its ubiquitousness, though, the Arm architecture hasn't seen any massive, generational upgrades since v8, released way back in October 2011. That's about to change, though.