Question

consider a 4 way set associative cache of made up of 64 bits words. The number of words per line is 8 and the number of sets 4096 sets. What is the cache size?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

On a 4-way set associative cache each set on the memory cache can hold up to four lines from the same memory block. With this approach the problems presented by the direct mapped cache are gone (both the collision problem and the loop problem we describe in the previous page