These are exciting times for the memory hierarchy in systems. New kinds of DRAM and non-volatile memories are becoming available to system architects to enhance the performance and responsiveness of ...

So, you’ve probably heard about CPU caches before. They’re like little speed boosters for your computer, holding ...

The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on ...

A handy heuristic is to use 1 microsecond as the dividing line between memory and storage, as shown by the solid line on the memory hierarchy chart below. On-chip memories, like registers and cache, ...

The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, ...

One solution to provide access consistency is the application of a memory coherence model such as MESI or MOESI within the L1 data cache hierarchy. For the MIPS Technologies MIPS32® 1004Kâ„¢ Coherent ...

ZeroPoint’s CacheMX, which works at the cache level, is IP that’s included with a processor’s IP. The lossless compression system also manages the compressed data (Fig. 1).

Cache Performance and Memory Hierarchy Optimization Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Cache Performance and Memory Hierarchy Optimization.

Memory Hierarchy Shakeup Gaps in the memory hierarchy have created openings for new types of memory, and there is no shortage of possibilities.