Performance Modeling and Enhancement of the Structured Memory Access Architecture

The structured memory access (SMA) architecture solves the traditional von Neumann processor-memory bottleneck by utilizing the structure of a program and the regular ways in which it accesses structured data in memory. The SMA machine consists of two pipelined processors: the computation processor (CP) and the memory access processor (MAP). By storing accessing information in the MAP, the SMA reduces the number of memory references required and utilizes the memory bus more effectively. The von Neumann bottleneck is essentially eliminated by an improved SMA and performance is then limited by process dependencies in the computation processor.

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

• Kahhaleh, Bassam Zuhair

• Computer Science

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8409788

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69265