Part 1: A look at the impact of communication across multiple processors on an SoC and how to to make that more efficient. Managing how the processors in an SoC talk to one another is no small feat, ...

Building scalable, multicore systems with all cores having access to a single shared memory is a concern of MIT Professor Nickolai Zeldovich. He described how to make such computers perform well in ...

Cache coherency, a common technique for improving performance in chips, is becoming less useful as general-purpose processors are supplemented with, and sometimes supplanted by, highly specialized ...