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Mastering cache design for faster computing

Cache memory sits at the heart of modern computing performance, bridging the speed gap between processors and main memory. By leveraging principles like temporal and spatial locality, engineers design ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Primer On Last-Level Cache Memory For SoC Designs

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How Memory Design Optimizes System Performance

Exponential increases in data and demand for improved performance to process that data has spawned a variety of new approaches to processor design and packaging, but it also is driving big changes on ...
TechRepublic

Design of Cache Memory with Cache Controller Using VHDL

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 ...
EDN

Using a managed memory subsystem

Designing a memory subsystem is complex and can be a significant part of a system design and directly impact time to market. Design and development complexity is increased when both volatile and ...
Electronic Design

Hardware Compression Works at the Memory Cache Level

How lossless data compression can reduce memory and power requirements. How ZeroPoint’s compression technology differs from the competition. One can never have enough memory, and one way to get more ...
Electronic Design

Server Processors Stack Up to 1.1 GB of 3D Cache

AMD is leveraging one of its latest families of EPYC server CPUs, code-named Genoa X, in-house to run the electronic design automation (EDA) tools it uses for product development. Based on TSMC's 5-nm ...