TechRepublic

Cache-Only Memory Architecture

A Cache-Only Memory Architecture design (COMA) may be a sort of Cache-Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (CC- NUMA) design. not like in a very typical CC-NUMA design, in a COMA, each shared-memory ...
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 ...
GIGAZINE

An expert explains in an easy-to-understand way what CPU cache memory is

When talking about CPU specifications, in addition to clock speed and number of cores/threads, ' CPU cache memory ' is sometimes mentioned. Developer Gabriel G. Cunha explains what this CPU cache ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Freeing Up Near-Memory Capacity For Cache Using Compression Techniques In A Flat Hybrid-Memory Architecture

A technical paper titled “HMComp: Extending Near-Memory Capacity using Compression in Hybrid Memory” was published by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and ZeroPoint Technologies.
EDN

Memory models for embedded multicore SoCs, Part 1 – Memory architecture

Editor's Note: Multicore architectures find use across a diverse range of applications thanks to their performance and efficiency. By combining several general-purpose MCU cores — or MCU cores 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, ...
Nature

Data Prefetching Techniques in Computer Architecture

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...