Given the accuracy of Moore’s Law to the development of integrated circuits over the years, one would think that our present day period is no different from the past decades in terms of computer ...

With SRAM failing to scale in recent process nodes, the industry must assess its impact on all forms of computing. There are ...

Generic test and repair approaches to embedded memory have hit their limit. Smaller feature sizes, such as 130 nm and 90 nm, have made it possible to embed multiple megabits of memory into a single ...

This easy-to-read textbook provides an introduction to computer architecture, focusing on the essential aspects of hardware that programmers need to know. Written from a programmer’s point of view, ...

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 ...

During the 1970s many different computer architectures were being developed, many of them focused on making computer systems easier and more effective to use. The Flex Machine developed at the UK ...

*160 terabytes … that’s the size of the world’s current largest single–memory computing system. Bearing in mind that a terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes, it’s unimaginable that such a computer ...