The miss penalty can be reduced by improving the mechanisms for data transfer between the different levels of hierarchy.

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• The extra time needed to bring the data into memory in case of a miss is called as                       
• The side of the interface circuits, that has the data path and the control signals to transfer data between interface and device is            
• During the transfer of data between the processor and memory we use
• If we use the flash drives instead of the harddisks, then the secondary storage can go above primary memory in the hierarchy.
• The next level of memory hierarchy after the L2 cache is                 
• The last on the hierarchy scale of memory devices is               
• In the memory hierarchy, as the speed of operation increases the memory size also increases.
• The main purpose of having memory hierarchy is to                   
•               are used to overcome the difference in data transfer speeds of various devices.
• The transfer of large chunks of data with the involvement of the processor is done by