Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 4G Bytes of main memory and a cache of 256 Blocks, where each cache Block has 16 Words, and Word Size is 4 Bytes.   a)How many blocks of main memory?   b)What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache (Tag, Block and Word fields)?   c)To which cache block will the memory reference 0000146A in Hex?

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Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 4G Bytes of main memory and a cache of 256 Blocks, where each cache Block has 16 Words, and Word Size is 4 Bytes.

 

a)How many blocks of main memory?

 

b)What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache (Tag, Block and Word fields)?

 

c)To which cache block will the memory reference 0000146A in Hex?

 

 

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