Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 3. Memory technology and optimizations, which examined innovations in main memory that offer improved system performance This installment, which examines architecture ...

Virtual memory and virtual machines, which examined architecture support for protecting processes from each other via virtual memory and the role of virtual machines This installment, which puts it ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that rethinks hardware data compression, freeing up more memory used by computers and mobile devices.