Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224


Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 words of main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each cache block contains 16words.

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 and word fields?

c. To which cache block will the memory reference 01D87216 map?

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