In the past decade, advances in speed of commodity CPUs have far out-paced advances in
memory latency. Main-memory access is therefore increasingly a performance bottleneck for …

В основе первых трех изданий книги лежит идея о том, что компьютер можно
рассматривать как иерархию уровней, каждый из которых выполняет какую-либо …

Various projects and products have been built using off-the-shelf field-programmable gate
arrays (FPGAs) as computation accelerators for specific tasks. Such systems typically …

In the past decade, the exponential growth in commodity CPU's speed has far outpaced
advances in memory latency. A second trend is that CPU performance advances are not …

In the past decade, advances in the speed of commodity CPUs have far out-paced advances
in memory latency. Main-memory access is therefore increasingly a performance bottleneck …

Memory performance is increasingly determining microprocessor performance and
technology trends are exacerbating this problem. Most architectures use set-associative …

Media processing applications motivate new processor architectures that place new
burdens on the compiler. These applications demand very high arithmetic rates and data …

(57) ABSTRACT A microprocessor With multiple stream prefetch engines each executing a
stream prefetch instruction to prefetch a complex data stream speci? ed by the instruction in …

As VLSI technology continues to improve, configurable hardware devices such as PLDs are
progressively replacing many specialized digital integrated circuits. Field-programmable …

Cooperative caching seeks to improve memory system performance by using compiler
locality hints to assist hardware cache decisions. In this paper, the compiler suggests cache …