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- From: jjsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan J. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Cached DRAM from Mitsubishi
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.233244.27241@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul29.214908.7876@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1992Jul29.224223.22285@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:32:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.224223.22285@beaver.cs.washington.edu> noah@cs.washington.edu (Rick Noah Zucker) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.214908.7876@trantor.harris-atd.com> dwilliam@jabba.ess.harris.com (David Williams) writes:
- >> I was flipping through the May issue of Electronic Design, and an
- >>ad from Mitsubishi caught my eye. They have a DRAM chip now available
- >>with built-in cache. This looks interesting - a 1M by 4 DRAM with a
- >>built-in 4K by 4 SRAM cache. Apparently, the chip has an internal bus
- >>that lets the SRAM cache do a line copy to/from the DRAM portion at
- >>64 bits. (16 x 4bit internal bus) Speed is claimed to be 10ns when a
- >>cache hit occurs, 70ns in case of a miss (actually, a miss causes a
- >>280ns DRAM cycle, but the SRAM can start doing stuff again in 70ns while
- >>the DRAM is busy)
- >
- > This is a little unclear, and if you have more detailed
- >information, please clarify my point. You say that 70 ns after a cache
- >miss, the SRAM can start doing stuff, but the DRAM is busy for another
- >210 ns. Does this mean that you will get your data in 70 ns, but the
- >DRAM is busy for another 210 ns because it has to write back the data you
- >just read out? Or does it mean that you can initiate another request in
- >70 ns? That is, you can make another request to the chip, which will be
- >satisfied if it is in the cache.
- >
- > Rick Noah Zucker
- > noah@cs.washington.edu
-
-
- From what I got out of the article, the dram reads an entire column of data from dram into the cache when a miss occurs.
- so that providing that the next read is within that column it can read in 70ns.
-
- Jonathan
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