In this installment, the author offers a detailed look at how device drivers handle management of an embedded system's overall memory subsystem. Adapted from “Embedded Systems Architecture ... up for ...

Understand the architecture of a basic computer system and its components ... Design pipeline processor including datapath and control, and design to detect and resolve hazards. • Understand memory ...

Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann ... Week 6: VLIW, vector processors, multimedia targeted instruction sets. Memory system design introduction. Week 7: Memory ...

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 ... solution stack — software to ...

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes ... In traditional desktop and laptop computer design, the main system memory known as RAM sits on a system bus which is separate from ...

During the 1970s many different computer architectures ... an object-based memory architecture, rather than the low-level, flat memory space that we usually see with computer systems.