Test 3 Syllabus

CSCE 5610/4610: Computer Architecture

Instructor: Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty

NOTE: This is closed book/text examination.

1. Basic Structure of Memory Hierarchy

2. Locality Principles

3. Buzzwords of Memory Hierarchy

4. Direct Mapped Cache

5. Cache Performance Measurement

6. Cache Performance Improvement

7. Split Cache

8. Set Associative Cache

9. Tag size Vs Associativity

10. Miss Rate Vs Block size

11. Miss rate Vs Associativity

12. Multilevel cache

13. Block placement, identification, replacement, and write strategy

14. Motivation for Virtual Memory

15. Page Faults

16. Virtual Memory Address Translation

17. Integrating Virtual Memory and Cache

18. Speeding up Translation with a TLB

19. Multi-Level Page Tables

20. Memory Technology

21. Materials covered on 26th Apr lecture.