If multiple devices, such as the CPU and peripherals, access the same cacheable memory region, cache and memory can become incoherent. This is illustrated in Figure 7. Suppose the CPU accesses a ...
Part 2 applies the concepts introduced here to the Blackfin processor. It will be published Monday, February 7. This series reviews techniques you can use to tune DSP system performance, using the ...
ARM's new symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) multicore architecture has found a home in the popular ARMv7 architecture. SMP is similar to the architecture found with ARM's higher-end cores. However, the ...