Assume a hierarchical memory system having a joint instruction/data cache with a memory - access cost of

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Assume a hierarchical memory system having a joint instruction/data cache with a memory - access cost of 10 ns on a hit and 90 ns on a miss. An alternative design without hierarchical memory architecture has a memory - access cost of 70 ns. What is the minimum cache - hit percentage that would make the hierarchical memory system useful?

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Real Time Systems Design And Analysis

ISBN: 9780470768648

4th Edition

Authors: Phillip A. Laplante, Seppo J. Ovaska

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