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CPU Design: Part 5 - CachesAs with all things CPU design-related - it depends. In most designs I’ve seen, this is the case. The cache I designed certainly worked with... -
CPU Design: Part 5 - CachesThanks for another good and fun article, Cliff. I did a project for my "Advanced Topics in Programming Language Theory" about relaxed memory... -
CPU Design: Part 5 - CachesThanks for another great explainer, @Cmaier. This is the one that I was waiting for. You did a great job of starting out with the basics, the... -
CPU Design: Part 4 - MemoriesSure. As per the saying "You don't know what you don't know", I am not even really sure what the most interesting aspects to touch upon in that...
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CPU Design: Part 4 - MemoriesTurns out that, despite the cache article being the longest I’ve done by far, I don’t get too much into how you optimize each - I just explain why...
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CPU Design: Part 5 - Caches
- Cliff Maier, PhD
- 24 min read
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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... -
CPU Design: Part 4 - Memories
- Cliff Maier, PhD
- 14 min read
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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... -
CPU Design: Part 3 - Power
- Cliff Maier, PhD
- 15 min read
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Power efficiency has increasingly become an important issue in CPU design. Performing calculations is not free - you have to supply power in... -
CPU Design: Part 2 - Logic Design Fundamentals
- Cliff Maier, PhD
- 13 min read
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In Part 1, we discussed how the architect decides how the processor behaves. The next step is for the logic designer to decide how to produce... -
Posting Articles
- Eric
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Welcome to the Articles section where anyone can share, it's as simple as a regular post with a few added benefits. It's important to add an image... -
CPU Design: Part 1 - Architecture
- Cliff Maier, PhD
- 4 min read
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”Architecture” may mean different things at different companies, but at the companies I worked at it had a fairly consistent meaning...