Practice - Address Mapping
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Practice Questions
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What is a cache hit?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when data retrieval is fast.
What does locality of reference refer to?
💡 Hint: Consider instances where you repeat tasks in programming.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What occurs when a requested data word is not found in cache?
💡 Hint: Think about the consequences of a failed search.
A cache miss results in increased performance because data comes quickly from main memory.
💡 Hint: Recall what we discussed about hits and misses.
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Challenge Problems
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Given an address with an 8-bit main memory, how many cache lines are required for a direct-mapped cache with 16 lines?
💡 Hint: Use the direct mapping logic to determine which parts of the address get used.
How would performance change if we had more cache lines but kept the same block sizes?
💡 Hint: Think about how data retrieval improves with more available space.
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