Somayeh Sardashti

A Primer on Compression in the Memory Hierarchy - Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture Somayeh Sardashti

Presents the current state-of-the-art in applying low-latency, lossless hardware compression algorithms to cache, memory, and the memory/cache link. This book should help a skilled memory system designer understand the fundamental challenges in applying compression to the memory hierarchy and introduce him/her to the state-of-the-art techniques in addressing them.