Instructions:

1) Use Dinero simulator to solve problems

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 : Multi-level L2 Cache

(use spice.din only)

Calculate the AMAT for 2-level cache with: (a) level-1 cache size of 16KB and level-2 cache size of 64KB (b) level-1 cache size of 32KB and level-2 cache size of 128KB

Assume direct-mapped for level-1 and 4-way set-associative for level-2 with block size of 16 bytes. The hit time for level-1 is 1 clock cycle and for level-2 is 8 clock cycles. Let the miss penalty for level-2 be 50 clock cycles and memory access latency be 100 clock cycles. What can you say about the performance of the two organizations?