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Consider a computer system has a main memory consisting of 1M 16 bit words. It also has a 4 K-word cache organized in the block set associative manner, with 4 blocks per set and 64 words per block. What is the number of bits in each of the TAG, SET and WORD field of main memory address format

  1. 11, 4, 6
  2. 10, 5, 6
  3. 10, 4, 7
  4. 11, 4, 7

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If nothing is mentioned in question then, by default it is byte addressable. Answer is option (3). 

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