In modern CPU device operation, 80% to 90% of energy consumption and timing delays are caused by the movement of data between the CPU and off-chip memory. To alleviate this performance concern, ...

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 ...

Tools: Electric VLSI and Silvaco’s Greenpak. →Shift register and Boolean Logic units. This is an effort to layout a CPU based on the Von Neumann architecture.

One of the most fundamental problems in modern silicon is known as the processor-memory performance gap. The term, which has been used for decades, refers to the well-known tendency for CPUs to ...