A What Are the Two Characteristics of Program Memory Accesses

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Essay

a. What are the two characteristics of program memory accesses that caches exploit?
b. What are three types of cache misses?
c. Design a 128KB direct-mapped data cache that uses a 32-bit address and 16 bytes per block. Calculate the following: (a)How many bits are used for the byte offset?
(b)How many bits are used for the set (index) field? (c) How many bits are used for the tag?

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