Even with today’s powerful multicore processors, system designers must make sure that processes share resources correctly. Time partitioning is a key technique for ensuring that an OS correctly shares ...

Charged with the task of improving yield, product engineers need to find the location of defects in manufactured ICs quickly and efficiently. Typically, they use volume scan diagnosis to generate ...

Typical memory characterization techniques using memory compilers and instance-specific memories have a number of tradeoffs—development time, accuracy, performance, and more. Ad-hoc instance-specific ...

Modern multicore systems demand sophisticated strategies to manage shared cache resources. As multiple cores execute diverse workloads concurrently, cache interference can lead to significant ...

What the heck is a dynamic disk partition? Is this related to FAT32 or NTFS, or is it really a C or D drive partition thing? Is there some sort of software partition going on (not through FDISK?).

In a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system, the ability to reassign processors, memory and I/O to specific applications on the fly without shutting down the machine. The reassignment can be done by ...

I have a 120GB IDE disk with a dynamic partition on it that I want to access through a Firewire interface (I have the external enclosure for this, etc.) However, it appears that, as Microsoft warns us ...