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Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 232 byte of byte-addressable main memory, and a...

Suppose a computer using direct mapped cache has 232 byte of byte-addressable main memory, and a cache of 1024 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 as seen by the cache, i.e., what are the sizes of the tag, block, and offset fields?

c.To which cache block will the memory address 0x000063FA map?

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a)2 32/245 227blocks b)32 bit addresses with 17 bits in the tag field, 10 in the block in the wordd Fie Tag Block Word 17 10

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