Abstract: Design space exploration (DSE) has long been a very important topic in electronic design automation (EDA), but the growing diversity of applications and the complexity of integrated circuits ...

Abstract: The IBM Telum II microprocessor features eight cores operating at a base frequency of 5.5 GHz, ten 36-MB L2 caches achieving 3.6-ns access latency, a 360-MB virtual L3 cache, and a new ...

For the lowest power consumption, MCUs are still preferred, and for high performance, MPUs are dominant. But that’s changing.