https://markgottscho.com/tags/microarchitecture/ Recent content in Microarchitecture on Mark Gottscho, Ph.D. Hugo en-US Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://markgottscho.com/posts/2024/02/20/uarch-spec-template/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://markgottscho.com/posts/2024/02/20/uarch-spec-template/ <div class="imageblock text-center"> <div class="content"> <img src="https://markgottscho.com/images/2024/02/20/banner.jpeg" alt="banner" width="800"/> </div> <div class="title">Figure 1. My prompt to Gemini: &#34;please generate a banner image suitable for a &#39;how to write a microarchitecture specification&#39; blog post.&#34;</div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Architecture and microarchitecture are two different levels of abstraction. The former is about the hardware/software interface; the latter is about the hardware implementation. The microarchitect crafts a source of truth for the hardware team to anchor their work on.</p> </div>