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CS252: Reading Assignment #11
Due Wednesday, October 29, 2000
For Wednesday, read the following two papers, and turn in two paragraphs (as described below):
  1. David Kroft, Lockup-Free Instruction Fetch/Prefetch Cache Organization, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1981
  2. Normal Jouppi, Improving Direct-mapped Cache Performance by the Addition of a Small Fully-Associative Cache and Prefetch buffers. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1981
Write two paragraphs for Wednesday, one for each paper.

Note that  both papers are in the ISCA Retrospective.

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