Question: Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 2 16 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 64 blocks, where each cache block

Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 2 16 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 64 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 bytes

a) How many blocks of main memory are there? 

b) What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag and offset fields?  

c) To which cache block will the memory address 0xF8C9 map?

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