A computer using a direct mapped cache has 220 Bytes of memory (byte addressable) and a cache of 32 blocks, each block contains 16 Bytes. a. How many blocks of main memory are there? b. What will be the sizes of the tag, index, and byte offset fields? c. To which cache set will the memory address 0x0DB63 map?

A computer using a direct mapped cache has 220 Bytes of memory (byte addressable) and a cache of 32 blocks, each block contains 16 Bytes. a. How many blocks of main memory are there? b. What will be the sizes of the tag, index, and byte offset fields? c. To which cache set will the memory address 0x0DB63 map?

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