The microprocessor-memory gap has been growing for over 30 years, and in that time caches have been crucial components in digital system design. All high-performance microprocessors are designed with ...

In a simulation test system with 36 cores, 'Jenga' CPU cache memory access increased processing speed by 20 to 30 per cent and energy efficiency by as much as 85 per cent.

Part 1 looks at the key issues surrounding memory hierarchies and sets the stage for subsequent installments addressing cache design, memory optimization, and design approaches. Part 2, Ten advanced ...

One of the most important parts of a processor is the buffer memory, also called the cache. What is it responsible for and how does it work?

This excerpt comprises: Part 1, Basics of Memory Hierarchies, which looked at the key issues surrounding memory hierarchies and set the stage for subsequent installments addressing cache design, ...

The authors report on the design of efficient cache controller suitable for use in FPGA-based processors. Semiconductor memory which can operate at speeds comparable with the operation of the ...

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...

Genoa X uses AMD’s 3D chip-stacking technology, V-Cache, for additional on-chip memory. AMD is leveraging one of its latest families of EPYC server CPUs, code-named Genoa X, in-house to run the ...

Processor cache is an extremely important part of the modern computer. When computers were slower there was less of a difference in speed between the computer's memory transfer rate and the speed ...

SoC designers have a problem: RAM is slow and it can't keep up with the CPU. The workaround is known as cache memory.