Concurrent data structures and memory management are critical components in the design of modern multi-core and parallel computing systems. These fields address the challenge of ensuring safe, ...

One of the most fundamental problems in modern silicon is known as the processor-memory performance gap. The term, which has been used for decades, refers to the well-known tendency for CPUs to ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

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Editor's Note: Multicore architectures find use across a diverse range of applications thanks to their performance and efficiency. By combining several general-purpose MCU cores — or MCU cores and ...