Re: ZipGS Tech. Question

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <259do2$3f9@reeve.research.aa.wl.com> schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
>Could someone explain the DATA and TAG cache memory designations
>on the ZipGS card? Why did my card come with one (TAG or DATA, I 
>can't remember which right now) with slower SRAM chips than the
>other? I believe the TAG had 70ns chips and the DATA had 45ns
>chips when I got it.

The TAG chip contains tracking information needed by the Zip so it knows what
data in the DATA chip corresponds to which memory address.  I'm sure someone
more well educated than I can go into gory details on cache architectures.




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