Memory Organization GATE 2021 Question #628 with Solution

GATE 2021 · Set-1

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Consider a computer system with a byte-addressable primary memory of size \(2^{32}\) bytes. Assume the computer system has a direct-mapped cache of size 32 KB (1 KB = \(2^{10}\) bytes), and each cache block is of size 64 bytes. The size of the tag field is _______________ bits.

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