You are given a main memory of 64Mbytes with each byte addressable and asked to design a cache memory using direct mapping. The main memory is organized as blocks of 8bytes. The cache memory must have a size of 512Kbytes. What should be the size of the tag in bits?

You are given a main memory of 64Mbytes with each byte addressable and asked to design a cache memory using direct mapping. The main memory is organized as blocks of 8bytes. The cache memory must have a size of 512Kbytes. What should be the size of the tag in bits?

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