Consider a 64K L2 memory and a 4K L1 direct mapped cache with block sizes of 512 values. a. How many blocks are in L1? b. How many offset bits are in the L2 address? c. How many index bits are in the L2 address? d. How many tag bits are in the L2 address? e. How many blocks in L2 will map to the same index in L1?

Consider a 64K L2 memory and a 4K L1 direct mapped cache with block sizes of 512 values. a. How many blocks are in L1? b. How many offset bits are in the L2 address? c. How many index bits are in the L2 address? d. How many tag bits are in the L2 address? e. How many blocks in L2 will map to the same index in L1?

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