Electronic Design

CXL: Coherency, Memory, and I/O Semantics on PCIe Infrastructure

Gain insight into the CXL specification. Learn how CXL supports dynamic multiplexing between a rich set of protocols that includes I/O (CLX.io, based on PCIe), caching (CXL.cache), and memory (CXL.mem ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Adding Cache to IPs and SoCs

Cache memory significantly reduces time and power consumption for memory access in systems-on-chip. Technologies like AMBA protocols facilitate cache coherence and efficient data management across CPU ...
CRN

Violin Memory Unveils Cache Appliances For File-Based Data

Scalable memory array developer Violin Memory this week unveiled a new multiterabyte capacity solid-state cache memory system aimed at increasing the storage performance of enterprise applications.
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, ...
InfoWorld

How to implement in-memory caching in ASP.NET Core

You can take advantage of the decorator design pattern to add in-memory caching to your ASP.NET Core applications. Here’s how. Design patterns have evolved to address problems that are often ...
EDN

Efficient checks for cache-coherency verification in complex SoCs

Cache, in its crude definition, is a faster memory which stores copies of data from frequently used main memory locations. Nowadays, multiprocessor systems are supporting shared memories in hardware, ...
Hackaday

Spectre And Meltdown: How Cache Works

The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fact ...
insideHPC

Are Memory Bottlenecks Limiting Your Application’s Performance?

This sponsored post from Intel explores ways to find and eliminate memory bottlenecks that could be limiting your applications’ performance. Often, it’s not enough to parallelize and vectorize an ...
Computer Weekly

Cache vs tier: What’s the difference between cache and storage?

The ascension of flash storage to mainstream datacentre technology status has brought with it questions about where and how exactly it can be used – and one of the big questions that comes up is over ...
TechSpot

AMD 3D V-Cache CPU memory used to create incredibly fast RAM disk

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...