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 ...
EDN

Last-level cache has become a critical SoC design element

As AI workloads extend across nearly every technology sector, systems must move more data, use memory more efficiently, and respond more predictably than traditional design methodologies allow. These ...
EDN

SoC design: When a network-on-chip meets cache coherency

Many people have heard the term cache coherency without fully understanding the considerations in the context of system-on-chip (SoC) devices, especially those using a network-on-chip (NoC). To ...
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Cache Evaluation Software: A Dynamically Configurable Cache Simulator

The memory hierarchy (including caches and main memory) can consume as much as 50% of an embedded system power. This power is very application dependent, and tuning caches for a given application is a ...
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Microprocessor System Design Students Demo Final Projects

Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers. On December 5, ...
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Renesas Electronics Kickstarts Maker and Emerging Application Design with the First ARM Cortex-A Processor-Based mbed Microprocessor Board

Renesas Brings the World’s First ARM® Cortex®-A Processor series ARM mbed™ Developer Platform – the RZ/A1, Featuring 1000 DMIPS SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- November 10, 2014 --Renesas Electronics ...