Despite large caches, main-memory access latencies still cause significant performance losses in many applications. Numerous hardware and software prefetching schemes tolerate th...
Zhenlin Wang, Doug Burger, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ka...
The need for content access control in hierarchies (CACH) appears naturally in all contexts where a set of users have different access rights to a set of resources. The hierarchy...
H. Ragab Hassen, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Hatem Be...
Two broad classes of memory models are available today: models with hardware cache coherence, used in conventional chip multiprocessors, and models that rely upon software to mana...
John H. Kelm, Daniel R. Johnson, William Tuohy, St...
Historically, processor accesses to memory-mapped device registers have been marked uncachable to insure their visibility to the device. The ubiquity of snooping cache coherence, ...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hil...
— Leveraging the power of scratchpad memories (SPMs) available in most embedded systems today is crucial to extract maximum performance from application programs. While regular a...
Taylan Yemliha, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Mahmut T. Kan...