If a microprocessor has L1 and L2 caches. The access time for L1 cache is τ. The miss penalties for transferring a block of memory from L2 to L1 is 10τ and it takes 120τ for transferring a block from memory to L2. The hit rates are the same for instructions and data and that the hit rates in the L1 and L2 caches are 0.90 and 0.85, repectively. I. Determine the fraction of accesses miss in both the L1 and L2 caches, thus requiring access to the main memory? II. What is the average access time as seen by the processor?

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