Memory management units (MMUs) are incorporated in, or available for, a wide range of embedded CPUs. Under some circumstances their use is mandatory; in other situations they might represent an ...

Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...

Memory management on Linux systems is complicated. Seeing high usage doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. There are other things you should also consider. Running out of memory on a Linux ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Within a short time, embedded designers will face major challenges associated with embedded memory at or around the 45-nanometer technology node. Industry leaders have already declared that ...

IOMMU or Input-Output Memory Management Unit, is a primary component in the Memory Management System of modern-day computing devices, responsible for handling memory management requests from hardware ...

A new technical paper titled “PIM-MMU: A Memory Management Unit for Accelerating Data Transfers in Commercial PIM Systems” was published by researchers at KAIST. “Processing-in-memory (PIM) has ...

With growing gap between processor and memory speeds, the memory bandwidth has become performance bottleneck for media applications. The memory controller designs are getting optimized to reduce the ...