Memory Hierarchy

1/18/01


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Table of Contents

Memory Hierarchy

Objective

What happens to a program?

The program in memory

Memory Systems

Memory Hierarchy

Memory Cost and Performance

Hierarchy

Typical Organisation

Caches

Problems in Implementation

Direct Mapping

Direct mapping problems

Simple (one-word) Cache With 8 addresses

Reading from Cache

Hits and Misses

Principle of Locality

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