Analytical Models and Performance Analysis of Instruction Fetch on Superscalar processors

摘要

Cache memories are small fast memories used to temporarily hold the contents of main memory that are likely to be referenced by processors so as to reduce instruction and data access time. In study of cache performance, most of previous works have employed simulation-based methods. However, that kind of researches cannot precisely explain the obtained results. Moreover, when a new processor is designed. Huge simulations must be performed again with several different parameters.