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, ...

This section describes three topics discussed in other chapters that are fundamental to memory hierarchies. Protection and Instruction Set Architecture Protection is a joint effort of architecture and ...

Since the invention of the 1T1C bit cell more than 50 years ago, DRAMs have become the main memory of choice for processors in computer systems and many consumer electronics devices. As new use ...