Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at a high level it should? This 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 energy consumption of modern memory hierarchies. You learn how to cope with challenging optimization problems that result from side effects that can arise at any point throughout the hierarchy. As a result you will be able to design and emulate the entire memory hierarchy. Model performance and energy consumption for each component in the memory hierarchy.