Across
- 4. Number of offset bits in 8KB, 2-way, 256 Byte block cache
- 5. The B in ABC of caches
- 6. In a multi-level cache system, the cache just before memory
- 8. When the cache and memory are updated together
- 10. The block that gets replaced
- 11. Number of index bits in 32KB, 4-way, 64 Byte block cache
- 13. Exploit spatial locality beyond block size
- 15. Type of locality in k++
- 17. Memory organization with tradeoff in bus width and access time
- 18. The number of eligible cache locations for a given block
- 20. A replacement policy unfair to recently fetched block
Down
- 1. When one block can go to only a fixed location
- 2. Cache where instruction and data can be stored together
- 3. A common coherence protocol
- 7. The kind of miss not seen by a fully associative cache
- 9. A write operation can set this bit
- 12. A low-overhead alternative to cache
- 14. Number of tag bits in 16KB, fully-associative, 128 Byte block cache with 30-bit address
- 16. Used to reduce miss penalty due to dirty block eviction
- 19. Caches are designed using this memory technology