Memory System

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M5's new memory system was redesigned with the following goals.

  1. . Combine the timing and functional accesses into one. With the old memory system the timing accesses did not have data and just accounted for the time it would take to do an operation. Then the functional access actually made the operation visble to the system. This method was confusing, it allowed simulated components to accidently cheat, and