Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Most of the recent processor has cache memory of 128 KB or more.

Most of the recent processor has cache memory of 128 KB or more.

Solution:-
The evolution of cache organization is seen clearly in the evolution of Intel microprocessors. The 80386 does not include an on –chip cache. The 80486 includes a single on-chip cache of 8 KB. Using a line size of 16 Bytes and four-way set associative organization. All of the Pentium processors include two on-chip L1 chances, one for data and one for instructions. For the Pentium 4, the l1 cache is 8 KB, using a line size 64 KB and a four-way set associative organization. The Pentium 4 Instruction cache is described subsequently . the Pentium 4 also includes an l2 cache that feeds both of the l1 cache. The l2 cache is eight-way set associative with a size of 256KB and a line size of 128 Bytes.
Cache Organization
The PowerPC cache organization has evolved with the overall arcxhitecture of the PowerPC family, eflecting the relentless pursuit of performance that is the driving force for all microporessor designers.
The original mode, the 601, includes a signle code/data 32-KB. Cache that is eight-way set associative. The 603 employs a more sophisticated RISC design but has a smaller cache , 16 KB divided into separate instruction and data caches, both using two-way set associative organization. The result is that the 603 gives approximately the same performance as the 601 at lower cost. The 604 and 620 each doubled the sized of the caches from preceding model. The G3 and G4 modles has the same size L1 caches as the 620.

The L1 caches are eight-way set associative. The L2 cache is a two-way set associative cache with 256KB,512Kb,or 1 MB of memory.

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