Abstract
The paper presents an environment for teaching elements of a computer system memory hierarchy. It is made up of a hierarchical memory system, a reference manual, a software package and a set of laboratory experiments. The hierarchical memory system is devised to cover the virtual memory and translation lookaside buffer, the cache memory, and the main memory. The reference manual provides all implementation details with the appropriate circuits drawings and detailed descriptions. For the devised hierarchical memory system a software package, which includes the graphical simulator with the accompanying tools, is developed. They allow one to carry out the simulation down to the register transfer level by executing a set of laboratory experiments.
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