1.3 What is an R10000 Microprocessor?

Primary Data Cache (D-cache)

• it has two interleaved arrays (two 16 Kbyte ways)
• it contains 32 Kbytes, organized into 8-word blocks, is 2-way set associative, using an LRU replacement algorithm.
• it handles 64-bit load/store operations
• it handles 128-bit refill or write-back operations
• it permits non-blocking loads and stores
• it checks parity on each byte