Large-scale applications, such as generative AI, recommendation systems, big data, and HPC systems, require large-capacity ...
Taking advantage of IP such as processors and network-on-chips (NoCs) allows designers to quickly configure and build chiplet ...
Adding water to Cache Energy’s cement pellets causes a chemical reaction that releases heat. The reaction is reversible, allowing the system to store heat as well. CACHE ENERGY More than two millennia ...
For about four years now, AMD has offered special “X3D” variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits games. AMD ...
Abstract: Current multiprocessors that support the total store order (TSO) memory consistency model invariably use writeback (WB) cache-coherence protocols. When their hardware needs to issue ...
A quick experiment to test if the Wii U is a cache coherent system or not. I became curious about this because of a Youtube comment that I found, claiming that the Wii U had a hardware bug that ...
Abstract: We propose an architectural design methodology for designing formally verifiable cache coherence protocols, called Fractal Coherence. Properly designed to be fractal in behavior, the ...