Fig.8: L2 cache memory copy performance(1) Fig.9: L2 cache memory copy performance (2) 5. Conclusions The major impact of deploying an L2 cache in a high performance embedded device is the performance ...

When the CPU runs an operation that wants to read or write data from/to the memory, it starts by checking the tags in the Level 1 cache. If the required one is present (a cache hit ), that data ...