Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem. <br><br>The book tells you everything you need to know about the logical design and operation, physical design and operation, performance characteristics and resulting design trade-offs, and the energy consumption of modern memory hierarchies. You learn how to to tackle the challenging optimization problems that result from the side-effects that can appear at any point in the entire hierarchy.<br><br>As a result you will be able to design and emulate the entire memory hierarchy.<br><br>• Understand all levels of the system hierarchy -Xcache, DRAM, and disk. <br>• Evaluate the system-level effects of all design choices. <br>• Model performance and energy consumption for each component in the memory hierarchy.