Memory

One of the types of memory is the RAM which has two types which are Dynamic and Static RAM

Another type of memory, ROM

INTRODUCTION TO CACHE

•CPU requests contents of memory location

•Check cache for this data

•If present, get from cache (fast) -> known as Cache Hit

•If not present, read required block from main memory to cache -> known as Cache Miss

•Then deliver from cache to CPU

•Cache includes tags to identify which block of main memory is in each cache slot

A typical view of the cache organization