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ISTC-CC Abstract
Memory Systems
Invited Book Chapter in Computing Handbook, Third Edition. Computer Science and Software Engineering, CRC Press, April 2014.
Yoongu Kim, Onur Mutlu
Carnegie Mellon University
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1.1 Basic Concepts and Metrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1.2 Two Components of the Memory System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Memory Hierarchy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Managing the Memory Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3.1 Virtual vs. Physical Address Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3.2 Virtual Memory System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.4 Caches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.4.1 Basic Design Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4.2 Logical Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.4.3 Management Policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.4.4 Managing Multiple Caches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.4.5 Specialized Caches for Virtual Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1.5 Main Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.5.1 DRAM Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.5.2 Bank Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.5.3 Memory Request Scheduling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.5.4 Refresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1.6 Current and Future Research Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1.6.1 Caches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1.6.2 Main Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 1.7 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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