COURSE OBJECTIVES: When a student completes this course, s/he should be able to: • Understand the architecture of a basic computer system and its components, and the role of performance in designing ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

Although many microprocessors such as IBM's POWER5 and AMD's Athlon 64 already had built-in memory controllers, Intel first made the move in 2008 with its Nehalem architecture, which shipped with ...