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Summary
Summary
Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem. The book tells you everything you need to know about the logical design and operation, physical design and operation, performance characteristics and resulting design trade-offs, and the energy consumption of modern memory hierarchies. You learn how to to tackle the challenging optimization problems that result from the side-effects that can appear at any point in the entire hierarchy.As a result you will be able to design and emulate the entire memory hierarchy.
Author Notes
Bruce Jacob is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ars Baccalaureate, cum laude, in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1988, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995 and 1997, respectively. In addition to his academic credentials, he has extensive experience in industry: he designed real-time embedded applications and real-time embedded architectures in the area of telecommunications for two successful Boston-area startup companies, Boston Technology (now part of Comverse Technology) and Priority Call Management (now part of uReach Technologies). At Priority Call Management he was employee number 2, the system architect, and the chief engineer; he built the first working prototype of the company's product, and he built and installed the first actual product as well.
Spencer Ng is a senior technical staff member with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Prior to that, he was a research staff member with IBM Almaden Research Center. Before joining IBM, he was a member of technical staff with Bell Labs in Naperville, Illinois. He has been a researcher in the field of storage for over twenty years, and is the holder of about twenty issued U.S. patents. For the past fifteen years, he is heavily involved in studying and developing various techniques for improving disk drive performance.
David Wang received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 2005. David's primary research interest is into power efficient, high performance memory systems that use commodity DRAM devices. As part of his research, David has collaborated with memory system architects and design engineers, and presented his work to JEDEC in support of proposals for future generation DRAM device specifications. David is presently working as an architect for MetaRAM, a memory systems startup in the Silicon Valley.
Table of Contents
Overview: On the Topic of Memory Systems and Their Design ▪ |
Part I: Cache Ch. |
1 An Overview of Cache Principles |
2 Logical Organization |
3 Management of Cache Contents |
4 Cache Cohenrence |
5 Implementation Issues |
6 Cache Case Studies |
Part II DRAM |
7 Memory Systems Overview |
8 DRAM Device: Basic Circuits and Architecture |
9 DRAM System Signalling and Timing |
10 DRAM Memory System Organization |
11 Generic DRAM Memory Access Protocol |
12 Evolution of DRAM Devices |
13 DRAM Memory Controller |
14 Memory System Design Analysis |
Part II Disk |
15 Overview of Disks |
16 The Physical Layer |
17 The Data Layer |
18 Performance Issues and Design Tradeoffs |
19 Drive Interface |
20 Operational Performance Improvement |
21 The Cache Layer |
23 Performance Testing |
24 Storage Subsystems |
25 Advanced Topics |
26 Case Study |
Part IV Cross-Cutting Issues |
27 The Holistic Design of Memory Hierarchies |
28 Analysis of Cost and Performance |
29 Power and Energy |
30 Reliability |
31 Virtual Memory |