A Structured Memory Access Architecture

When conventional von Neumann architectures reference the memory, addressing information must first be obtained, usually by transfer from the memory to the CPU. The work performed by the CPU can be partitioned into a computation process and an access process. Outside of adding addressing modes to instructions, little has been done to reduce the work performed by the access process or to reduce the demands placed on the memory for access-related activities. This work investigates one method of reducing the von Neumann bottleneck and improving the degree of overlap between the computation and access processes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Pleszkun, Andrew Richard

• Engineering, Electronics and Electrical

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8302963

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69242