An analysis of the information content of address and data reference streams

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey C. Becker;Arvin Park

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIGMETRICS '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Recent increases in VLSI processor speed and transistor density have not been matched by a proportionate increase in the number of I/O pins used to communicate information on and off chip. Since the number of I/O pins is limited by packaging technology and switching constraints, this trend is likely to continue, and I/O bandwidth will become the primary VLSI system performance bottleneck. This paper analyzes the potential of address and data stream coding in order to reduce bandwidth requirements