Average number of clock cycles per instruction for a program or program fragment Example: Suppose we have two implementations of the same instruction set architecture. Computer A has a clock cycle ...

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level ...

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

Abstract: 2023 marked the fiftieth year of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). As one of the oldest and preeminent computer architecture conferences, ISCA represents a ...