Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 3. Memory technology and optimizations, which examined innovations in main memory that offer improved system performance This installment, which examines architecture ...

2.5 Crosscutting Issues: The Design of Memory Hierarchies This section describes three topics discussed in other chapters that are fundamental to memory hierarchies. Protection and Instruction Set ...

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

A tutorial on DRAM architecture, specifically looking at design tradeoffs and subsequent impact to the overall system ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that rethinks hardware data compression, freeing up more memory used by computers and mobile devices.