Basics of Memory Hierarchies: A Quick Review The increasing size and thus importance of this gap led to the migration of the basics of memory hierarchy into undergraduate courses in computer ...

Virtual memory and virtual machines, which examined architecture support for protecting processes from each other via virtual memory and the role of virtual machines This installment, which puts it ...

Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

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 ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...