Semiconductor Engineering

Cache Coherency In Heterogeneous Systems

Until recently, coherency was something normally associated with DRAM. But as chip designs become increasingly heterogeneous, incorporating more and different types of compute elements, it becomes ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Reducing The Cost of Cache Coherence By Integrating HW Coherence Protocol Directly With The Programming Language

A new technical paper titled “WARDen: Specializing Cache Coherence for High-Level Parallel Languages” was published by researchers at Northwestern University and Carnegie Mellon University.
EDN

Cache Coherency Protocol Design

• Designed MSI, MESI and MOESI Coherence Protocols for a multiprocessor system. • Analyzed the Cache Performance for different cache configurations and different number of processors. • Modified the ...
Electronic Design

CXL: Coherency, Memory, and I/O Semantics on PCIe Infrastructure

Gain insight into the CXL specification. Learn how CXL supports dynamic multiplexing between a rich set of protocols that includes I/O (CLX.io, based on PCIe), caching (CXL.cache), and memory (CXL.mem ...
ExtremeTech

Using hardware queues to break the multi-core CPU bottleneck

With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...
EDN

Implementing DMA on ARM SMP Systems

This Application Note explores the implications associated with performing Direct Memory Access (DMA) operations on an ARM multi-core system such as the ARM11 MPCore and Cortex-A9 MPCore. The target ...
The National Law Review

Prior Art Coherency and Cache Incoherency: “Known-Technique” Rationale for Motivation to Combine

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