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Memory Hierarchy: Caches
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Why caches work (locality), cache organization (direct-mapped, set-associative, fully associative), write policies, miss types (compulsory/capacity/conflict), and multi-level caches.
Goal
Simulate cache behavior on address traces; compute miss rates and AMAT; design cache parameters (size, associativity, block size) for given constraints; classify misses and apply optimizations (blocking, prefetching intuition).
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