A computer using direct mapping cache has 256Mbytes of byte addressable main memory and cache size of 32k lines and each cache block contain 8 bytes. How many blocks of main memory are there? What are the size of the tag, line number and words? To which cache block will the memory address 13ADEF9H map? To which line number will the memory address 17FEAD8H map?

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A computer using direct mapping cache has 256Mbytes of byte addressable main memory and cache size of 32k lines and each cache block contain 8 bytes.

How many blocks of main memory are there?
What are the size of the tag, line number and words?
To which cache block will the memory address 13ADEF9H map?
To which line number will the memory address 17FEAD8H map?

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