Design-Reuse

Navigating Cache Coherence: The Back-Invalidate Feature in CXL 3.0

In the rapidly evolving landscape of data centers, ensuring cache coherence in multi-host environments is imperative. The Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.0 specification introduces a robust mechanism ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Cache Coherence In Network On Chip Design (NTU)

A new technical paper titled “Learning Cache Coherence Traffic for NoC Routing Design” was published by researchers at Nanyang Technological University. “In this work, we propose a cache ...
Electronic Design

Adding Cache to IPs and SoCs

Cache memory significantly reduces time and power consumption for memory access in systems-on-chip. Technologies like AMBA protocols facilitate cache coherence and efficient data management across CPU ...
Design-Reuse

Using OCP and Coherence Extensions to Support System-Level Cache Coherence

Open Core Protocol (OCP) [1][2] is a common standard for Intellectual Property (IP)core interfaces. OCP facilitates IP core plug-and-play and simplifies reuse by decoupling the cores from the on-chip ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The High But Often Unnecessary Cost Of Coherence

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 ...