CS-343 Assignment 10

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Introduction

This assignment is based on sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.5 of the textbook and the Cache Parameters web page.

The Assignment

Answer the following questions for a memory system with the following set of parameter values:

Byte addressable
8 bytes per word
8 GB primary memory
2-way set associative cache
8 words per cache line
2 MB cache capacity
cache access time is 500 psec
miss penalty time is 5 nsec

Questions

Number of blocks of primary memory
Number of cache lines
Number of cache sets
Primary memory address size
Size of byte offset field
Size of block offset field
Size of index field
Size of tag field
p(hit) if the CPU were to access memory totally randomly
Average access time if the CPU were to access memory totally randomly
Average access time if p(hit) is 0.97

Submit The Assignment

Submit the assignment either on paper in class or by email by midnight of the due date. If you submit it by email, the Subject: line must be CS-343 Assignment 10.