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?

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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.

  1. How many blocks of main memory are there?
  2. 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?
  3. To which cache block will the memory reference 17042416 map?

 

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