Best journals for Computer Science Hardware & Architecture

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Key Areas of Performance Analysis in Hardware & Architecture

  1. Processor Performance
  • Clock Speed: Measure the processor’s clock speed (GHz) to determine how many cycles per second it can perform. Higher clock speeds typically lead to better performance.
  • Throughput: Evaluate the number of instructions the processor can execute per unit of time. This includes instructions per cycle (IPC) and overall instruction throughput.
  • Latency: Assess the time taken to execute an instruction or complete a task. Lower latency indicates better performance.
  • Pipeline Efficiency: Analyze the efficiency of the processor’s pipeline stages and the impact of pipeline hazards, stalls, and branch mispredictions.
  1. Memory Performance
  • Access Time: Measure the time required to access data from different levels of memory (L1, L2, L3 cache, RAM). Lower access times are better.
  • Bandwidth: Evaluate the rate at which data can be read from or written to memory. Higher bandwidth indicates better performance.
  • Latency: Assess the delay between requesting data from memory and receiving it. This includes cache latency and memory access latency.
  • Cache Performance: Analyze cache hit rates, miss rates, and the effectiveness of cache hierarchies. This includes understanding the impact of cache size, associativity, and replacement policies.
  1. Storage Performance
  • Read/Write Speed: Measure the speed at which data can be read from or written to storage devices, such as SSDs and HDDs. Higher speeds result in better performance.
  • IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second): Evaluate the number of input/output operations a storage device can handle per second. Higher IOPS indicates better performance.
  • Latency: Assess the time required to complete read and write operations on storage devices. Lower latency indicates better performance.
  1. System Architecture
  • Bus Performance: Analyze the performance of system buses and interconnects, including bandwidth, latency, and efficiency in data transfer between components.
  • Scalability: Evaluate how well the system architecture scales with increasing numbers of processors, cores, or memory modules. This includes assessing the impact of scaling on performance and efficiency.
  • Concurrency and Parallelism: Assess the system’s ability to handle multiple tasks or threads simultaneously. This includes evaluating multi-core and multi-threading performance.
  1. Energy Efficiency
  • Power Consumption: Measure the amount of power consumed by different components of the hardware system. Lower power consumption indicates better energy efficiency.
  • Thermal Management: Analyze the effectiveness of cooling solutions and thermal management in maintaining optimal operating temperatures and preventing overheating.
  1. Reliability and Fault Tolerance
  • Error Rate: Assess the frequency of hardware errors or failures. Lower error rates indicate better reliability.
  • Fault Tolerance: Evaluate the system’s ability to continue operating correctly in the presence of hardware faults or failures. This includes redundancy and error-correcting mechanisms.
  1. Performance Benchmarks
  • Benchmarking Tools: Use benchmarking tools and suites to measure and compare the performance of different hardware components and architectures. Examples include SPEC, LINPACK, and Geekbench.
  • Synthetic Benchmarks: Analyze performance using synthetic benchmarks that simulate specific workloads or scenarios to evaluate hardware capabilities.
  • Real-World Benchmarks: Measure performance using real-world applications and workloads to assess how well hardware performs in practical use cases.
  1. Design and Optimization
  • Design Trade-offs: Evaluate trade-offs in hardware design, such as between speed, power consumption, and cost. This includes assessing the impact of different design choices on overall performance.
  • Optimization Techniques: Apply optimization techniques to improve hardware performance, such as increasing cache size, optimizing memory access patterns, and enhancing processor pipelines.
  1. Networking and Communication
  • Network Interface Performance: Assess the performance of network interfaces and communication protocols, including bandwidth, latency, and packet loss.
  • Interconnect Performance: Analyze the performance of interconnects between different components, such as CPUs, GPUs, and memory modules.

List Of High Impact Factor Computer Science Hardware & Architecture Journals

S.no

Journal title

ISSN

Web of Science Categories

1.      

ACM JOURNAL ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS

1550-4832

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

2.      

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION

1544-3566

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

3.      

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

1084-4309

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

4.      

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS

1539-9087

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

5.      

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON RECONFIGURABLE TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS

1936-7406

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

6.      

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON STORAGE

1553-3077

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

7.      

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

0925-1030

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

8.      

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

0001-0782

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

9.      

COMPUTER

0018-9162

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

10.   

COMPUTER JOURNAL

0010-4620

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

11.   

COMPUTER NETWORKS

1389-1286

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

12.   

COMPUTERS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

0045-7906

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

13.   

COMPUTER STANDARDS & INTERFACES

0920-5489

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

14.   

COMPUTER SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

0267-6192

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

15.   

DESIGN AUTOMATION FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

0929-5585

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

16.   

DISPLAYS

0141-9382

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

17.   

IBM JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

0018-8646

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

18.   

IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING

1063-6692

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

19.   

IEEE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

 

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

20.   

IEEE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE LETTERS

1556-6056

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

21.   

IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE

2162-2248

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

22.   

IEEE DESIGN & TEST

2168-2356

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

23.   

IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LETTERS

1943-0663

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

24.   

IEEE MICRO

0272-1732

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

25.   

IEEE MULTIMEDIA

1070-986X

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

26.   

IEEE NETWORK

0890-8044

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

27.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

0278-0070

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

28.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS

0018-9340

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

29.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING

1545-5971

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

30.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS

2162-237X

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

31.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY

0018-9529

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

32.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING

2377-3782

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

33.   

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS

1063-8210

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

34.   

IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

1536-1284

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

35.   

IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES

0916-8508

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

36.   

IET COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL TECHNIQUES

1751-8601

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

37.   

INTEGRATION-THE VLSI JOURNAL

0167-9260

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

38.   

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

1094-3420

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

39.   

JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS

0218-1266

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

40.   

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND SYSTEM SCIENCES

0022-0000

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

41.   

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1000-9000

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

42.   

JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

1084-8045

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

43.   

JOURNAL OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

1943-0620

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

44.   

JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING

0920-8542

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

45.   

JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

1383-7621

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

46.   

JOURNAL OF THE ACM

0004-5411

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

47.   

MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS

0141-9331

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

48.   

MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS

1383-469X

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

49.   

NETWORKS

0028-3045

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

50.   

NEW GENERATION COMPUTING

0288-3635

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

51.   

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

0166-5316

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

52.   

SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING-INFORMATICS & SYSTEMS

2210-5379

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

53.   

VLDB JOURNAL

1066-8888

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

 

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