ADLINK aTCA-6155 - Manual (Page 83)

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aTCA-6155
8.3.1 CPU Configuration
You can use this screen to select options for the CPU Configura-
tion Settings. Use the up and down < Arrow > keys to select an
item. Use the < + > and < - > keys to change the value of the
selected option. A description of the selected item appears on the
right side of the screen. The settings are described on the follow-
ing pages. An example of the CPU Configuration screen is shown
below.
Hardware Prefetcher
This is used for reducing the waiting time of DRAM. The hard-
ware prefetcher looks for streams of data and tries to predict
what data will be needed next by the processor and proactively
tries to fetch these data.