Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 64 Kbyte of byte-addressable main memory, and a cache of 512 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 bytes. a) How many blocks of main memory are there? b) What is the format of a memory address? Provide the names and the sizes of the fields. c) To which cache block will the memory address Ox2FA map?

Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 64 Kbyte of byte-addressable main memory, and a cache of 512 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 bytes. a) How many blocks of main memory are there? b) What is the format of a memory address? Provide the names and the sizes of the fields. c) To which cache block will the memory address Ox2FA map?

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Chapter10: Pointers

Section10.1: Addresses And Pointers

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