EE 4720 Computer Architecture - Lecture Slides, Set 13

Caches




Contents


Motivation


Idea

Hit

Miss

Organization of Simple Cache


Terminology


Address Space

Unit of Addressability

Bus Width

Relationship Between Address and Data on Bus

Line (also called block)

Set


Address Fields

Alignment

Offset

Index

Tag


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