CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Intel on Monday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco unveiled its latest Itanium-based processor for mission-critical computing, code-named Poulson. Rory M.

What in heck is Apple's macroscalar processor? And why should we care? Apple got a new patent on something called a macroscalar processor this month. You may have seen a write-up on it that quoted the ...