Week 10

Chapters (Computer organization and design fundamentals):

• 13 Memory Hierarchy
  • 13.1 Characteristics of the Memory Hierarchy
  • 13.4 Cache RAM
    • 13.4.1 Cache Organization
    • 13.4.2 Dividing Memory into Blocks
    • 13.4.3 Cache Operation
    • 13.4.4 Cache Characteristics
    • 13.4.5 Cache Mapping Functions
    • 13.4.6 Cache Write Policy
  • 13.5 Registers

Videos:

• Introduction to Cache Memory
• Fully Associative Caches and Replacement Algorithms
• Direct Mapped Caches
• Set-Associative Caches
• Cache Write Policies, Flag Bits, and Split Caches