Practice - Memory Access Sequence
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Practice Questions
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What is the purpose of the tag in a memory address?
💡 Hint: Think about how cache lines relate to memory blocks.
What happens during a cache miss?
💡 Hint: Consider where the data is coming from in both scenarios.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What identifies a cache hit?
💡 Hint: Consider the definition of cache hit.
True or False: A cache miss means the requested data is found in the cache.
💡 Hint: Think about the opposite of a cache hit.
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Challenge Problems
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If you have a direct mapped cache with 16 lines, and you access addresses 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, and 80 in sequence, how many hits and misses will occur if the cache is initially empty?
💡 Hint: Think about how cache lines will fill up with the addresses.
Given a memory address 244 in a system with 64 lines and a word size of 4 bytes. What is the tag, line, and word offset?
💡 Hint: Use the formula to find the cache line number and convert accordingly.
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