With computer systems becoming ever larger and more complex, the cost and effort associated with their construction is increasing and the systems are now sufficiently complex that...
Increases in peak current draw and reductions in the operating voltages of processors continue to amplify the importance of dealing with voltage fluctuations in processors. Noise-...
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Krishna K. Rangan, Michael D. ...
Transactional Memory (TM) systems must track the read and write sets—items read and written during a transaction—to detect conflicts among concurrent transactions. Several TM...
Daniel Sanchez, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Karthikeya...
Many relational and object-oriented database systems provide referential integrity and compound operations on related objects using relationship mechanisms. Distributed object sys...
process: Designers must define higher abstraction levels that allow system modeling. They must use description languages that handle both hardware and software components to descri...