0 votes 0 votes What is the number of multiplexers required in set associative mapping hardware ? Given set bits are S, tag bits are T and word bits are W. CO and Architecture co-and-architecture cache-memory multiplexer + – Alakhator asked Oct 19, 2018 • retagged Aug 7, 2022 by Shubham Sharma 2 Alakhator 689 views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
1 votes 1 votes It will depend upon associativity of cache suppose cache is k way associative. That means k blocks are present in one set than 1 k×1 mux is required inorder to choose 1 block from k Deep Learner answered Oct 19, 2018 Deep Learner comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
1 votes 1 votes We need mux to select tag bits from the selected set, if we have T bit tag and K way set associative then we need T * K number of mux with mux size as 2^s x 1(for selecting a set ) Hemanth_13 answered Oct 19, 2018 Hemanth_13 comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.