Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) substantially increase capacity pressure on the on-chip memory hierarchy while requiring fast access. Neither private nor shared caches can provide bot...
Zeshan Chishti, Michael D. Powell, T. N. Vijaykuma...
Memory interleaving is a cost-efficient approach to increase bandwidth. Improving data access locality and reducing memory access conflicts are two important aspects to achieve hi...
Modern microprocessor designs continue to obtain impressive performance gains through increasing clock rates and advances in the parallelism obtained via micro-architecture design...
Power consumption and power density for the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) are important considerations not only in its design, but can have a consequence on cache design as w...
Ismail Kadayif, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T. K...
Most modern microprocessor-based systems provide support for superpages both at the hardware and software level. Judicious use of superpages can significantly cut down the number...