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Q: What is meant by Cache coherency ?

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Sigiloso

29 de ago. de 2015

A. Draw a memory hierarchy of a System on Chip and explain how data resident at an address in L1 cache can be in modified state while an IO peripheral or another CPU may try to access the same address and may get stale data , hence cache coherency protocols like MESI are used.