Instructions:

1) Use Dinero simulator to solve problems 1-4.

2) Submit a PDF of your analysis of the data and your results. One sample output per question can be attached at the end of the solution as appendix. Do not put all the runs of all the simulation outputs.

Question: Unified and split caches

(use cc1.din only)

Compare the cache miss ratios of the following two systems:

a system with a 32K-byte unified cache

a system with a 16K-byte instruction-only cache and a 16K-byte data-only cache.

Assume the caches are 4-way set associative, LRU replacement policy and the block size is 32 bytes. What conclusions can you draw from this experiment?