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 ...

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 ...

Week 7: Memory system design: memory operation scheduling/memory renaming, advanced caches, pre-fetching, main memory systems, modern DRAM technologies. Week 8: Virtual memory support. I/O. Week 9: ...

Adapted from “Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach” by John Hennessy and David Patterson (Morgan Kaufmann) Related articles: Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 1. Basics of Memory ...

Memory technology and optimizations, which examined innovations in main memory that offer improved system performance; Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 4. Virtual memory and virtual machines, which ...

An ability to explain how computer memory is organized and represented both to the programmer and to the computer architecture by the operating system through the use of virtual memory mapping. An ...

In the most simple computer system architecture, all control lies with the CPU (Central Processing Unit). This means not only the execution of commands that affect the CPU’s internal register… ...

During the 1970s many different computer architectures were being developed, many of them focused on making computer systems easier and more effective to use. The Flex Machine developed at the UK M… ...