by Yuan Xie on Oct 27, 2017 | Tags: Cache, Emerging Technology, Hardware, Memory, Persistent, Storage
Memory architecture is a key component of modern computer systems. Memory hierarchy importance increases with the advances in microprocessor performance. Traditional memory hierarchy design consists of embedded memory (such as SRAM and embedded DRAM) for on-chip...
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by Steve Swanson on Jul 10, 2017 | Tags: Memory, Persistent, Programming, Storage
For decades, memory systems have relied on DRAM for capacity, SRAMs for speed and then turned programmers loose with malloc(), free(), and pthreads to build an amazing array of useful, carefully tuned, composable, and remarkably useful data structures. However, these...
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