Memory Systems

In Praise of Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk

Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk is the first book that takes on the whole hierarchy in a way that is consistent, covers the complete memory hierarchy, and treats each aspect in significant detail. This book will serve as a definitive reference manual for the expert designer, yet it is so complete that it can be read by a relative novice to the computer design space. While memory technologies improve in terms of density and performance, and new memory device technologies provide additional properties as design options, the principles and methodology presented in this amazingly complete treatise will remain useful for decades. I only wish that a book like this had been available when I started ...