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Locality, Cache Organization, and AMAT
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Temporal/spatial locality; tag/index/offset; hit time vs. miss penalty; Average Memory Access Time formula and its role in CPI.
Goal
Given a cache config and addresses, determine hits/misses and final state; compute AMAT and overall program performance impact; explain tradeoffs of larger blocks vs. conflict misses.
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