Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

A topic that I find particularly interesting, which is raised by many embedded software developers whom I meet, is dynamic memory allocation – grabbing chunks of memory as and when you need them. This ...

Our memories depend on our ability to recall details about the world—a child’s face, a goose, a lake. To transform them into actual experiences, though, the brain must somehow merge these individual ...

The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

Business owners that need to perform graphics-intensive tasks such as video editing or 3D modeling with their computers often buy high-end PCs with discrete video cards that have built-in, dedicated ...

Dynamic mechanisms of engram maturation. During the allocation, engram allocation is primarily governed by enhancements in intrinsic neuronal excitability, driven primarily by increased ...