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Principle of locality: Good computer programs tend to reference data items that are near other recently referenced data items or that were recently referenced themselves. Two distinct forms of ...

The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, ...

This repository contains materials related to the course WIA1003 Computer System Architecture, offered at the University of Malaya. This course covers the introduction to computer architecture which ...

This letter proposes a system architecture for a scalable software-assisted memory (SAM) hierarchy for emerging manycore embedded systems. Our SAM hierarchy overcomes the coherence overhead and ...

This paper reports on implementation of a magnetic bubble memory in a two-level hierarchial system. The hierarchy used a major-minor loop device and RAM under microprocessor control. Dynamic memory ...