CS-343 Assignment 10

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

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

1. Number of blocks of primary memory
2. Number of cache lines
3. Number of cache sets
4. Primary memory address size
5. Size of byte offset field
6. Size of block offset field
7. Size of index field
8. Size of tag field
9. p(hit) if the CPU were to access memory totally randomly
10. Average access time if the CPU were to access memory totally randomly
11. Average access time if p(hit) is 0.97