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Memory latency

This is achieved by using a first-level sum-addressed memory data cache [6]. Mixing the memory address adder with the word line decoder for the data cache largely eliminates the address adder's latency. This gives us a linear memory latency improvement.

Anandha Gopalan 2001-12-01