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To answer the questions succinctly: 1 . Number of bits reserved for the Line field in a direct map cache: The size of the cache

To answer the questions succinctly:
1. Number of bits reserved for the Line field in a direct map cache:
The size of the cache is 64KB, which is 64 x 1024 bytes. Each block holds 8 words, and each word is 4 bytes. Therefore, each block is 8 x 4 bytes =32 bytes.
To find the number of lines in the cache, divide the cache size by the block size:
Number of lines =(64 x 1024)/32=2048 lines
To address 2048 lines, we need log2(2048) bits. So, the number of bits for the Line field is:
log2(2048)=11 bits
The correct answer for the Line field is 11.
2. Number of bits reserved for the Tag field:
A system with 64GB memory means there are 64 x 1024^3 bytes in total. Since each word is 4 bytes, the total number of words will be (64 x 1024^3)/4. The total number of addressable blocks in memory is this number divided by the number of words per block (8).
Number of blocks =(64 x 1024^3)/(8 x 4)=2^36/2^5=2^31 blocks
Thus, the main memory address must accommodate 31 bits for block address. Since we have 11 bits for the Line field and the word offset (with 8 words per block, we need 3 bits, because 2^3=8), we subtract these from the 31 bits for the total address space:
Tag field bits =31 bits (total)-11 bits (line)-3 bits (word offset)=17 bits
The correct answer for the Tag field in a direct map cache is 17(not provided in the options given).
3. Main memory block #4095 will map to which cache line:
In a direct map cache, to find where a memory block will map, we use the remainder of the division of the block number by the number of lines in the cache.
Cache line number = Block number % Number of cache lines
Cache line number =4095%2048=1023
The correct answer is 1023.
4. Number of bits reserved for the Tag field for a 16-way associative cache:
We still have the same total number of blocks in memory, which is 2^31. However, since it's a 16-way set associative cache, the number of sets will be the total number of lines divided by 16:
Number of sets = Number of lines /16=2048/16=128 sets
To address 128 sets, we need log2(128) bits, which is 7 bits. The word offset is still 3 bits.
So for the Tag field:
Tag field bits =31 bits (total)-7 bits (set)-3 bits (word offset)=21 bits
The correct answer for the Tag field in a 16-way set associative cache is 21(not provided in the options given).

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