For each of the following questions, select the option which…

For each of the following questions, select the option which is most often true:   Increases, decrease, doesn’t affect   Increasing the capacity of a cache                   its access time Decreasing the capacity of a cache                  its miss rate Decreasing the capacity of a cache                    its miss penalty Increasing a cache’s hit rate                       the effective average memory access time Assuming constant capacity, increasing a cache’s block size (cache line size) ________________the amount of tag storage required

Rank the following types of memories in terms of average mem…

Rank the following types of memories in terms of average memory access time:      Disk storage, Register, Main Memory, L1 Cache, L2 Cache        Fastest                                                                                                                                      Slowest 

Caches are important to providing a high-performance memory…

Caches are important to providing a high-performance memory hierarchy to processors. Below is a list of 32-bit memory address references, given as word addresses.    3, 180, 43, 2, 191   For each of these references, identify the binary address, the tag, and the index given a direct-mapped cache with two-word blocks and a total size of 8 blocks. Also list if each reference is a hit or a miss, assuming the cache is initially empty. Word Address Binary Address (8 Bits is sufficient) Tag Index Hit/Miss 3         180         43         2         191