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Chapter 4
Caches and Write Buffer
This chapter describes the Instruction Cache (ICache), the Data Cache (DCache), and
the write buffer. It contains the following sections:
• About the caches and write buffer on page 4-2
• Write buffer on page 4-4
• Enabling the caches on page 4-5
• TCM and cache access priorities on page 4-8
• Cache MVA and Set/Way formats on page 4-9.