For a direct-mapped cache design with a 32-bit address, the fol... | Filo

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A direct-mapped cache consists of eight blocks. Main memory contains 4 K blocks of eight words each. Access time for the cache is 22 ns and the time required to fill a cache slot from main memory is 300 ns. (This time allows us to determine the block is missing and bring it into cache.) Assume a request is always started in parallel to both cache and to main memory (so if it is not found in cache, we do not have to add this cache search time to the memory access). If a block is missing from cach