
The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur
Edition 4ISBN: 978-1284074482
The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur
Edition 4ISBN: 978-1284074482 Exercise 9
Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has
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; that is, what are the sizes of the tag and offset fields?
c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01D872 map?

a) How many blocks of main memory are there?
b) What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag and offset fields?
c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01D872 map?
Explanation
a)
Main memory size: Cache size:
Block...
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