Semester exam

Question

1) A two way set associative cache memory uses a block size of 4 words . The cache can
accommodate a total of 2048 words from main memory. The main memory size is
128kx32.

a) What is the size of the cache memory.

Comments

2048 words is capacity of cache from main memory. Word size= 2^5 units. So, cache size= 2^16 units.

Or, we can say Cache size as 2^8 x 2 x 2^7 in terms of no. of sets x set size x block size.