{"title":"A measurement study of memory transaction characteristics on a PowerPC-based Macintosh","authors":"T. L. Adams","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501755","url":null,"abstract":"Address traces are acquired typically in order to evaluate different cache organizations and memory hierarchy designs. Address traces have other uses, however. For example, traces can provide information about patterns of different types of memory accesses (e.g. reads versus writes). If the trace data includes time stamps, bursts of accesses can be detected and analyzed. This paper describes a series of studies performed on a PowerPC based Macintosh computer to examine memory transaction behavior using time stamped address traces. The measurement setups and workloads are described, along with a description of the results obtained.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124860187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DAVID system software v2.0 for interactive digital television networks","authors":"A. Davidson","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501776","url":null,"abstract":"DAVID (Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder) is an open operating system environment for digital consumer devices, such as interactive television decoders, that can be used in telephone, cable TV and wireless networks. Created and licensed by Microware Systems Corporation, an ISO 9001-certified company, DAVID is based on Microware's OS-9 Real-Time Operating System.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123019504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PowerPC Platform: a system architecture","authors":"S. Bunch, R. Hochsprung, T. Moore","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501760","url":null,"abstract":"The PowerPC Platform: a system architecture specification (also known as the Common Hardware Reference Platform, or CHRP) defines a broad family of PowerPC Microprocessor based computer systems on which Macintosh, PC, and UNIX-based Operating Systems can run without platform-specific tailoring. The architecture covers a wide range of platforms, from laptops to high-end servers. This paper gives an informal overview of the PowerPC Platform, concentrating on the goals and rationale behind the approaches taken in the design of the architecture.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129439087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mpact media processor redefines the multimedia PC","authors":"Peter Foley","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501789","url":null,"abstract":"By implementing all seven key multimedia functions (MPEG video, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, audio, fax/modem, telephony, and videophone) using a single media processor, Chromatic Research has redefined the multimedia PC. Utilizing a high bandwidth RAMBUS RDRAM for media memory and a VLIW SIMD internal architecture, the Mpact M1 media processor is able to deliver 2 BOPS of sustained integer performance at a price point significantly below alternative discrete hardware implementations. By cooperatively solving multimedia tasks with the host processor, by supporting Win '95 APIs, and by supporting PC legacy needs such as VGA graphics and FM audio, the M1 raises the bar on base PC multimedia functionality.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129464895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Hollenbeck, S. Undy, Leith Johnson, D. Weiss, P. Tobin, Richard Carlson
{"title":"PA7300LC integrates cache for cost/performance","authors":"D. Hollenbeck, S. Undy, Leith Johnson, D. Weiss, P. Tobin, Richard Carlson","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501764","url":null,"abstract":"HP continues its development of low cost, high performance processors with an evolution of the PA7100LC which includes 128 kB of on-chip primary cache. It implements the full PA-RISC1.1 functionality including the little-endian, uncacheable memory, and multimedia extensions of the PA7100LC. The PA7300LC connects directly to an optional second level cache of 256 kB to 64 MB using plug-in cards. It also adds the ability to accelerate I/O stores to certain memory locations for greatly improved graphics performance. The cache system consists of on-chip, 2-way, separate instruction and data caches of 64 kB total each, plus the off-chip second level cache. Memory consists of 8 MB to 3.75 GB of standard DRAMs or SIMMs connecting directly to the processor chip, using either a 72 bit or 144 bit data path. The chip is fabricated in 0.5 micron, 4-level metal CMOS and is designed to run at frequencies up to 160 MHz. The PA7300LC exceeds performance levels of previous generation high-end workstations while lowering overall system cost and power consumption.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129484931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hernán Epelman-Wang, Sidney Markowitz, Brian Roddy
{"title":"Graphical containment in multimedia authoring","authors":"Hernán Epelman-Wang, Sidney Markowitz, Brian Roddy","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501787","url":null,"abstract":"When designing an authoring system, the choice of graphics model has a strong impact on the type of environment produced. A poor choice of model can result in a system that is hard to understand and which is limited in power and extensibility. We propose containment as the one and only mechanism upon which an authoring system's graphics model should be built. The containment based model subsumes all other models and yields a system which is easy to use and fully extensible.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121222698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian Roddy, Sidney Markowitz, Hernán Epelman-Wang
{"title":"User interfaces for authoring systems with object stores","authors":"Brian Roddy, Sidney Markowitz, Hernán Epelman-Wang","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501788","url":null,"abstract":"In an authoring system with an object store, the user interacts with objects directly rather than through textual scripts. Although there is a history of tools and practices for using scripts, there are a number of authoring and user interface problems that can be uniquely addressed by a system based on an object store. We discuss the advantages of authoring systems that have an object store. We then detail a set of functionality and a direct manipulation interface makes full use of these advantages. In so doing, we describe a system that achieves a much greater ease of use and new levels of dynamism.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121636867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"StrongARM: a high-performance ARM processor","authors":"R. Witek, J. Montanaro","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501767","url":null,"abstract":"A 32-bit 162 MHz/215 MHz custom VLSI ARM microprocessor is described. The chip contains two 16 Kbyte, 32-way set associative caches for instructions and data. The 2.1 M transistor chip is fabricated in a 2.0 V, 0.35 /spl mu/m, 3-layer metal CMOS process. It dissipates 0.5 W at 162 MHz/1.5 V and 1.1 W at 215 MHz/2.0 V.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124047069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tiger Shark file system","authors":"R. Haskin, Frank B. Schmuck","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501773","url":null,"abstract":"Tiger Shark is a parallel file system for IBM's AIX operating system. It is designed to support interactive multimedia, particularly large-scale systems such as interactive television (ITV). Tiger Shark scales across the entire RS/6000 product line, from small desktop machines to the SP-2 parallel supercomputer. Tiger Shark's primary features are support for continuous time data, scalability, high availability, and manageability, all of which are crucial in its role in large-scale video servers. Interestingly, most of the features that make Tiger Shark a good video server are important for other large-scale applications such as technical computing, data mining, digital library, and scalable network file servers. This paper briefly describes Tiger Shark: the environment that makes it important, the key technology it embodies, and the efforts to build products based on it.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122054341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don't get caught in the web: a fieldguide to searching the net","authors":"William R. Tuthill","doi":"10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501752","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of the World Wide Web and ensuing explosive growth of the Internet, the challenge of finding relevant information online increases. This paper provides an overview of the most popular and useful tools for the task. Core Internet search and retrieval technologies are covered along with search, directory and review services. Each tool is described with its name, location, sponsor, features, coverage of the Internet, advantages, disadvantages, usage tips and historical notes. Due to the rapid rate of evolution of Internet tools, some of this paper will be out of date by the time it's published. For an online version of this paper with more complete information, search for documents containing \"Tuthill\" and \"Fieldguide\" on the World Wide Web.","PeriodicalId":117038,"journal":{"name":"COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127463951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}