Suppose a byte-addressable computer using set-associative cache has 2 16 bytes of main memory and a cache

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Suppose a byte-addressable computer using set-associative cache has 2 16 bytes of main memory and a cache of 32 blocks, and each cache block contains 8 bytes

a) If this cache is 2-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache; that is, what are the sizes of the tag, set, and offset fields? 

b) If this cache is 4-way set associative, what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache?  

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