: We explore the question: “What can a von Neumann processor borrow from dataflow to make it more suitable for a multiprocessor?’’ Starting with a simple, “RISC-like” ins...
Pipelining has become a common technique to increase throughput of the instruction fetch, instruction decode, and instruction execution portions of modern computers. Branch instru...
Most current single-chip processors employ an on-chip instruction cache to improve performance. A miss in this insk-uction cache will cause an external memory reference which must...