GATE CSE · 2025 · CS
Question 39: Computer Organization and Architecture
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Question 39
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For a direct-mapped cache, 4 bits are used for the tag field and 12 bits are used to index into a cache block. The size of each cache block is one byte. Assume that there is no other information stored for each cache block.
Which ONE of the following is the CORRECT option for the sizes of the main memory and the cache memory in this system (byte addressable), respectively?
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GATE CSE 2025 · Paper 2
Computer Science and Information Technology · Original paper archive
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- Computer Science and Information Technology
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- Multiple choice (MCQ)
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- 2 marks
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