In Part 4 I explained that when it comes to memory, you essentially have to trade off capacity vs. speed. If you want a large pool of available memory, it will tend to be slow compared to a small pool of memory. I also explained that you can take advantage of this trade-off by using multiple...
Introduction
I’ve received a request to talk about caches, which is a topic near and dear to my heart. In fact, my Ph.D. dissertation was a rather lengthy book on the topic. The last I checked, my old research group was still hosting an html version of my dissertation here.
I’ll get to...
Power efficiency has increasingly become an important issue in CPU design. Performing calculations is not free - you have to supply power in order to enable the CPU to move electrical charge carriers around in such a manner as to perform computations. There are many techniques that CPU...
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