VisualSim can be used to construct stochastic models using SystemResource blocks; where priority and preemption can be factored into the shared resource.  Stochastic models are in contrast to detailed cycle-accurate models.  If stochastic models are constructed, then they can use time estimates for first order of approximation; or a specific number of cycles with the SystemResource specifying the SystemResource speed in MHz […]

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Software Pipeline In software engineering, a pipeline consists of a chain of processing elements (processes, threads, coroutines, functions, etc.), arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next; the name is by analogy to a physical pipeline. Usually some amount of buffering is provided between consecutive elements. The information that flows in these pipelines is often a stream of records, bytes, or bits, and the elements of a pipeline […]

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Apple’s M2, the successor to the M1 and the SoC variant expected to ship in higher-end systems, is said to have now taped out on TSMC’s N5P process [5nm+].  N5P is said to be a small improvement over TSMC’s N5 node, offering an additional 10 percent improvement to power consumption and a 5 percent performance improvement over […]

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Sycamore is a quantum processor created by Google Inc.’s Artificial Intelligence division.  It comprises 53 q-bits, while actually having 54 q-bits.  In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a Nature paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy. To estimate the time that would be taken by a classical supercomputer, Google […]

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