CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

There is a discussion going on in one of the All Programmable Planet postings that started life as a discussion about the 8051 MCU, an architecture that is now 30 years old, but still one of the most ...

This month's Non-Volatile Memory Workshop (NVMW '17) has concluded, and it was truly a mind-expanding program, in more ways than one. Case in point: Stanford Professor H.S. Philip Wong presented The ...

Micron is challenging conventional computer architectures conceived decades ago with Automata, a highly parallel processor that can change its behavior to process the task at hand. The Automata ...

Nvidia Pushes Memory Improvements, Unified Architecture for GPUs, Mobile Processors At Nividia's GPU Technology Conference last week, I was surprised to see both how far graphics and GPU technology is ...