Computer Architecture

A memory hierarchy consists of the elements shown in the table below. Compute the average access time for this memory system.

Component Access Time Capacity Hit Rate
Hard drive 10ms 100Gbytes 100%
Cache 1ns
512Kbytes
95%
Main memory
50ns

512Mbytes
90%


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