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Computer engineering researchers have developed software using two new techniques to help computer chip designers improve memory systems. The techniques rely on 'performance cloning,' which can ...

Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

Fundamentals of computer systems programming, machine organization, and performance tuning. This course provides a solid background in systems programming and a deep understanding of low-level machine ...

Editor’s Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...

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

Virtual memory and virtual machines, which examined architecture support for protecting processes from each other via virtual memory and the role of virtual machines This installment, which puts it ...

With the particular needs of scientists and engineers in mind, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest ...