Average Memory Access Time (AMAT)
Tag: amat
Aliases: AMAT
Hit time + miss rate × miss penalty. The standard analytic model for cache performance, applied recursively for multilevel hierarchies.
Lecture references
- L01 · Intro — p.26
- L12 · Caches — p.23
- L13 · Advanced Caches — p.6 , p.14 , p.33 , p.34
- L14 · Prefetching — p.5 , p.34 , p.44
- L15 · Virtual Memory — p.6
- L16 · Multiprocessors — p.11