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    A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called...
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    rate. Each execution unit is not a separate processor (or a core if the processor is a multi-core processor), but an execution resource within a single...
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  • containing numerous simpler, independent processor cores (from a few tens of cores to thousands or more). Manycore processors are used extensively in embedded...
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  • Intel Core microarchitecture (provisionally referred to as Next Generation Micro-architecture, and developed as Merom) is a multi-core processor microarchitecture...
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    A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its...
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  • soft processor at all, only use a single soft processor. However, a few designers tile as many soft cores onto an FPGA as will fit. In those multi-core systems...
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    Intel Core is a line of multi-core (with the exception of Core Solo and Core 2 Solo) central processing units (CPUs) for midrange, embedded, workstation...
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  • advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs [......
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  • Opteron processors via independent pathways to the system RAM. Chip multiprocessors, also known as multi-core computing, involves more than one processor placed...
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  • Core 2 is a processor family encompassing a range of Intel's mainstream 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core...
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    all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes. Most multiprocessor systems today use an SMP architecture. In the case of multi-core processors...
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  • performance as other processes have to wait for processor time, leading to process starvation. Single-core – one processor on a die. Since about 2012, even most...
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    multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution...
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  • Thumbnail for ARM big.LITTLE
    slower processor cores (LITTLE) with relatively more powerful and power-hungry ones (big). The intention is to create a multi-core processor that can...
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  • application processor cores designed by Arm Holdings (ARM Cortex-A) and 3rd parties. It does not include ARM Cortex-R, ARM Cortex-M, or legacy ARM cores. This...
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  • multi-core processor and microarchitecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance known as "STI". It combines a general-purpose PowerPC core...
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    ARM Cortex-A9 (category ARM Holdings IP cores)
    The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore is a 32-bit multi-core processor that provides up to 4 cache-coherent cores, each implementing the ARM v7 architecture instruction...
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    image processor, also known as an image processing engine, image processing unit (IPU), or image signal processor (ISP), is a type of media processor or...
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  • CPU cache (redirect from Processor cache)
    main memory. A cache is a smaller, faster memory, located closer to a processor core, which stores copies of the data from frequently used main memory locations...
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    the hardware supports parallelism, with multi-core and multi-processor computers having multiple processing elements within a single machine, while clusters...
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  • will see only one thread to execute at a time, even if it runs on a multi-core processor, although some implementations provide for CPU intensive code to...
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  • Thumbnail for Kunle Olukotun
    designing the first general-purpose multi-core CPU, innovating single-chip multiprocessor and multi-threaded processor design, and pioneering multicore CPUs...
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    hyper-threaded, or multi-core, processor depends on the needs of the software, and how well it and the operating system are written to manage the processor efficiently...
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  • the processor. Carbon nanotube computer Logic gate Processor design Microprocessor Multiprocessing Multiprocessor system architecture Multi-core processor...
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  • Thumbnail for Expeed
    chip solution integrates an image processor in multi-core processor architecture, with each single processor-core able to compute many instructions/operations...
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  • Similarly, a processing circuitry inside a multi-core processor can transfer data to and from its local memory without occupying its processor time, allowing...
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    A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number...
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    harness the full potential of multi-core architectures. One way to work around the Von Neumann bottleneck is to mix a processor and DRAM all on one chip....
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    Computer clients are tailored to uniprocessor and multi-core processor systems, and graphics processing units. The diversity and power of each hardware...
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  • Memory barrier (category Instruction processing)
    within a single process, may run concurrently on a multi-core processor. The following multi-threaded program, running on a multi-core processor gives an example...
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