Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 2^20 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 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, block , and offset fields? c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x0D863 map

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  1. Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 2^20 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 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, block , and offset fields?

    c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x0D863 map
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