SAN JOSE, Calif. — Swedish startup Xelerated Packet Devices said it will defy conventional wisdom by introducing a fully pipelined network processor that operates at 40-Gbit/second wire speed by next ...

To my knowledge, processors with longer pipelines (P4) are able to run at higher frequencies as opposed to those with shorter piplines (Athlon). I've read that from several places but none of them ...

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 ...

Instruction Level Parallelism means executing multiple instructions or pieces of instructions at the same time to make the computer run faster. Computers have hit the parallelism wall. This paper will ...

I'm taking a computer architecture course at my university to satisfy some prerequisites I'm missing for grad school. As a disclaimer, I'm in CS, not CE or EE, so my understanding of the detailed ...