pipeline burst cache

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pipeline burst cache - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Pipeline Burst Cache
  PB Cache
  Pipelined Burst Cache
  
     <hardware, storage> (PB Cache) A synchronous cache built
     from pipelined SRAM.
  
     A cache in which reading or writing a new location takes
     multiple cycles but subsequent locations can be accessed in
     a single cycle.  On Pentium systems in 1996, pipeline burst
     caches are frequently used as secondary caches.  The first 8
     bytes of data are transferred in 3 CPU cycles, and the
     next 3 8-byte pieces of data are transferred in one cycle
     each.
  
     (1996-10-13)