Memory System Design II
Mostafa Abd‐El‐Barr, Hesham El‐Rewini · 2004
In the chapter 6, we have introduced the concept of memory hierarchy. We have also characterized a memory hierarchy in terms of the locality of reference and its impact on the average access time. We then moved on to cover the different issues related to the first level of the hierarchy, i.e. the cache memory In this chapter, we continue our coverage of the different levels of the memory hierarchy. In particular, we start our discussion with the issues related to the design and analysis of the (main) memory unit. Issues related to virtual memory design are then discussed. A brief coverage of the different read-only memory (ROM) implementations is provided at the end of the chapter.