Pipeline Burst Cache
<hardware, storage> (PB Cache) A synchronous cache built from pipelined
SRAM.
A cache in which reading or writing a new location takes multiple cycles but
subsequent locations can be accessed in a single cycle. On Pentium systems in
1996, pipeline burst caches are frequently used as secondary caches. The first 8
bytes of data are transferred in 3 CPU cycles, and the next 3 8-byte pieces of
data are transferred in one cycle each.
(1996-10-13)
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