Question

The size of the physical address space of a processor is 2p bytes. The word length is 2w bytes. The capacity of cache memory is 2n bytes. The size of each cache block is 2m words. For a k-way set-associative cache memory, the length (in number of bits) of the tag field is

Answer 1

The size of the physical address space of a processor is 2p bytes. The word length is 2w bytes. The capacity of cache memory is 2n bytes. The size of each cache block is 2m words. For a k-way set-associative cache memory, the length (in number of bits) of the tag field is 8n2.