Increasing associativity requires more comparators and more tag bits per cache block. Assuming a cache of 4096 blocks, a four-word block size, and a 64-bit address, find the total number of sets and the total number of tag bits for caches that are direct-mapped, two-way and four-way set-associative, and fully associative.

Increasing associativity requires more comparators and more tag bits per cache block. Assuming a cache of 4096 blocks, a four-word block size, and a 64-bit address, find the total number of sets and the total number of tag bits for caches that are direct-mapped, two-way and four-way set-associative, and fully associative.

Database System Concepts

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