You are given a main memory of 64Mbytes with each byte addressable and asked to design a cache memory using direct mapping. The main memory is organized as blocks of 8bytes. The cache memory must have a size of 512Kbytes. What should be the size of the tag in bits?
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You are given a main memory of 64Mbytes with each byte addressable and asked to design a cache memory using direct mapping. The main memory is organized as blocks of 8bytes. The cache memory must have a size of 512Kbytes.
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- You are given a main memory of 64Mbytes with each byte addressable and asked to design a cache memory using direct mapping. The main memory is organized as blocks of 8bytes. The cache memory must have a size of 512Kbytes. How many lines do you need to use in the cache memory?Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 words of main memory and a cache of 512 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 words. How many blocks of main memory are there? 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? To which cache block will the memory reference 17042416 map?A cache is set up with a block size of 32 words. There are 64 blocks in cache and set up to be 4-way set associative. You have byte address 0x8923. Show the word address, block address, tag, and index Show each access being filled in with a note of hit or miss. You are given word address and the access are: 0xff, 0x08, 0x22, 0x00, 0x39, 0xF3, 0x07, 0xc0.
- Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 216 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 64 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 bytes.Q.) 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?If we had a computer that can only address data in bytes, but it has fully associative mapping, 16-bit main memory addresses, and 32-bit cache memory blocks. If each block is 16 bytes in size, then...(a) Count the number of bytes in the offset field.The tag field's size in pixels must be calculated (b).Suppose a computer using direct-mapped cache has 2 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 bytes.Q.) What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag, block, and offset fields?
- Suppose a computer using set associative cache has 216 words of main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, and each cache block contains 8 words. If this cache is 2-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, set, and offset fields?Suppose a byte-addressable computer using set-associative cache has 216 bytes of main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, and each cache block contains 8 bytes.Q.) If this cache is 2-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag, set, and offset fields?Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224224 words of main memory and a cache of 512 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 words. 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 reference 1604181616041816 map? Also... Suppose a computer using set associative cache has 216216 words of main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, and each cache block contains 8 words. a. If this cache is 2-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, set, and offset fields? b. If this cache is 4-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache?
- Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each block contains 64 bytes.Q.) What is the format of a memory address as seen by cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag and offset fields?Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 words of main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 words. 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 word fields? c. To which cache block will the memory reference 01D87216 map?A CPU has 32-bit memory address and a 256 KB cache memory. The cache is organized as a 4-way set associative cache with cache block size of 16 bytes. a. What is the number of sets in the cache? b. What is the size (in bits) of the tag field per cache block? c. What is the number and size of comparators required for tag matching? d. How many address bits are required to find the byte offset within a cache block? e. What is the total amount of extra memory (in bytes) required for the tag bits?