Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each cache block contains 64 bytes. a) How many blocks of main memory are there? b) What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, i.e., what are the sizes of the tag and offset fields? c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01D872 map?

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Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each cache block contains 64 bytes.                                        

 

  1. a) How many blocks of main memory are there?
  2. b) What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, i.e., what are the sizes of the tag and offset fields?
  3. c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01D872 map?
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