Cache organizations

  • Authors:

  • Jeffrey J. Rothschild

  • Affiliations:

  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

  • Venue:
  • ACM-SE 17 Proceedings of the 17th annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

The cache is a general buffer for addressable main memory. The incentives for using a cache are discussed along with the objectives of the cache designer. Three cache organizations; direct mapping, fully associative, and set associative are described using a single notation, and two caches are examined in detail. Interactions between the replacement algorithm and the degree of associativity are discussed as well as other possible approaches to cache design.