Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) is a way of improving the performance of a processor by executing operations simultaneously. Modern processors generally have an abundance of execution ...

Abstract: Enabling better performing systems benefits applications that span those running on mobile devices to large data applications running on data centers. The efficiency of most applications is ...

In technical circles, one part of the iPad buzz has been its microprocessor, the A4, with a lack of detail from Apple (AAPL) fueling speculation about what it can or can't do. Unlike most of its other ...

Transactional memory systems represent a significant advancement in concurrent programming by allowing grouped sequences of operations to execute atomically. This paradigm reduces the complexity ...

Editor's Note: Multicore architectures find use across a diverse range of applications thanks to their performance and efficiency. By combining several general-purpose MCU cores — or MCU cores and ...