EDN

Cache vs. DMA: trade offs for programmers

Now that there are embedded media processors available that can handle both MCU and DSP tasks, C programmers who are very familiar with the MCU model of application development are transitioning into ...
WinBuzzer

Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm Slashes LLM Memory Use by 6x

Google has published TurboQuant, a KV cache compression algorithm that cuts LLM memory usage by 6x with zero accuracy loss, ...
EDN

Optimizing for instruction caches, part 1

Part 2 looks at the tradeoffs between program and data cache optimizations, and shows how to choose the best compromise. It will be published Monday, November 5. For more on this topic see Optimizing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

All You Need Is Cache (Coherency) To Scale Next-Gen SoC Performance

Life on the SoC performance front remains a withering battle sometimes, because things can seem fairly bleak. As transistor scaling becomes more expensive below 10-nanometer feature sizes, every day ...