AMD is hosting its Fusion Developer Summit this week, and the overarching theme is heterogeneous computing and the convergence of the CPU and GPU. Is shared memory and true heterogeneous computing the ...

Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a technology that is created for supercomputing centers more suitable for high-end enterprise customers, even sophisticated ones that are not afraid to ...

This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. This time around we are going to look at some of the normally little considered effects of having memory being shared ...

A new technical paper titled “Controlled Shared Memory (COSM) Isolation: Design and Testbed Evaluation” was published by researchers at Arizona State University and Intel Corporation. “Recent memory ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Shared bus interfaces and memory test These days, designs contain a huge number of memory arrays embedded in the core, and these memories often consume a substantial portion of the total chip area.

Applications driving the use of multiple embedded DSPs, network-processing units, or graphics chips require extremely high throughput without compromising silicon area. Increasingly, SOC ...