CS 354 - Machine Organization

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Project p3 (6%) due 10 pm Monday, October 24th (exam week)

Homework hw5 (1.5%) due 10 pm Friday, October 21st
Midterm Exam Thursday October 27th, 7:15 - 9:15 pm
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Basic Cache Practice
Cache Memory Organization
Varying Set Size - Set Associativity
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Varying Set Size - Set Associativity (from last time)
Writing to Caches
Cache Performance Metric
Cache Parameters and Performance
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Read: B&O 6.5 - 6.7
Coding for Caches

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Cache Performance Metrics

Miss Rate

Hit Rate

Hit Time

Miss Penalty

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Cache Parameters and Performance

Bigger Cache
Hit Rate

Hit Time

Miss Penalty

Hit Time

Miss Penalty

Hit Time

Miss Penalty

Bigger Block
Hit Rate

More ELines (Associativity)

Hit Rate

Write Strategy

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