Review: Extending the Memory Hierarchy

P

$

Memory

Very fast 1ns clock

Multiple Instructions

per cycle

SRAM, Fast, Small

Expensive

DRAM, Slow, Big,Cheap

(called physical or main memory)

Magnetic, Really Slow,

Really Big, Really Cheap

HW manages

movement

SW manages

movement

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