. suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 224 bytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 128 blocks, where each cache block contains 64 bytes. 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 size of the tag and offset field. c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01D872 map?

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