Assume that a computer using direct mapped cache has 2^24 words of main memory and a cache of sixty-four blocks, where each cache block contains sixteen words.
A. How many blocks of main memory are there?
B. What is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache? That is, what are the sizes of the tag, block and word fields?
C. To which cache block will the memory reference (20DB63)base 16 map?