Semiconductor Engineering

A Primer On Last-Level Cache Memory For SoC Designs

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...
Design-Reuse

Using OCP and Coherence Extensions to Support System-Level Cache Coherence

Open Core Protocol (OCP) [1][2] is a common standard for Intellectual Property (IP)core interfaces. OCP facilitates IP core plug-and-play and simplifies reuse by decoupling the cores from the on-chip ...
TechRepublic

Design of Cache Memory with Cache Controller Using VHDL

The authors report on the design of efficient cache controller suitable for use in FPGA-based processors. Semiconductor memory which can operate at speeds comparable with the operation of the ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Cache memory design in verilog IP Listing

This Physical Layer core gives you the ability to simultaneously read and write on every rising and falling edge. QDRII+ is a low-latency SRAM-based standard, used in cache coherent systems, ... This ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How Memory Design Optimizes System Performance

Exponential increases in data and demand for improved performance to process that data has spawned a variety of new approaches to processor design and packaging, but it also is driving big changes on ...
EDN

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 5. Crosscutting issues and the memory design of the ARM Cortex-A8

This section describes three topics discussed in other chapters that are fundamental to memory hierarchies. Protection and Instruction Set Architecture Protection is a joint effort of architecture and ...
Business Wire

Keysight Unveils Comprehensive Design and Test Workflow for Next-Generation Memory Designs

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to ...
Electronic Design

CXL Switch SoC Unlocks More Memory for AI

Check out our coverage of the 2023 Flash Memory Summit. This article is also part of the TechXchange: CXL for Memory and More. PCI Express (PCIe) is the de facto standard peripheral interface. Running ...
EDN

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 1. Basics of Memory Hierarchies

Editor’s Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...
Electronic Design

Hardware Compression Works at the Memory Cache Level

How lossless data compression can reduce memory and power requirements. How ZeroPoint’s compression technology differs from the competition. One can never have enough memory, and one way to get more ...