May 31 ยท 16 min read ยท RAM is scarce. Processes are greedy. And yet, somehow, your laptop runs dozens of programs simultaneously without them trampling each other's data. The secret weapon is paging โ a beautifully elegant
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May 26 ยท 14 min read ยท The Illusion Every Program Lives In Open your task manager. Notice that Chrome thinks it owns 4 GB of memory. Spotify thinks it owns 2 GB. Your IDE thinks it owns 8 GB. Add them up and you'll often ex
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May 17 ยท 7 min read ยท We spend millions on Next-Gen Firewalls, enterprise-grade EDRs, and highly advanced, AI-driven security architectures. Companies conduct rigorous patch management schedules every single week to ensure
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May 15 ยท 4 min read ยท Every program you run believes a quiet, comfortable lie. It thinks it has a vast, clean stretch of memory all to itself โ starting neatly from address zero and stretching out as far as it needs. The s
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Feb 12 ยท 29 min read ยท Arithmetic is the beating heart of every processor. Whether your machine is rendering 3-D graphics, training a neural network, or simply incrementing a loop counter, the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) is doing the heavy lifting. In this deep-dive, I wan...
Join discussionFeb 3 ยท 8 min read ยท Introduction In the previous two posts, I explored why execution-driven simulation is essential for modeling modern processors and analyzed Issue #14 from the Olympia repository, which calls for adding execution-driven support. That discussion reveal...
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Feb 2 ยท 23 min read ยท Table of Contents Introduction What is a Compiler? The Compilation Process Overview Phases of a Compiler Lexical Analysis (Scanner) Syntax Analysis (Parser) Semantic Analysis Intermediate Code Generation Code Optimization Code Generation S...
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Feb 2 ยท 16 min read ยท In this article, I'll go over how to design a pipelined processor. The processor implements a Hennessy & Patterson-style MIPS RISC instruction set architecture. I provide some parts of the implementation in SystemVerilog. You can browse the full sour...
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Jan 31 ยท 7 min read ยท Introduction In my previous post, I explored the motivation behind execution-driven performance modeling and how Olympia currently operates as a trace-driven simulator. This post builds directly on that foundation by analyzing Issue #14: โAdd executi...
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