GATE CS 2016 Set 2 — Question 42

NAT+2 / -0MediumSet-Associative CacheMemory Hierarchy & CacheComputer Organization & ArchitectureCache Numericals

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The width of the physical address on a machine is 40 bits. The width of the tag field in a 512 KB 8-way set associative cache is________bits.

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