caching iii andreas klappenecker cpsc321 computer architecture
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Cache Block Mapping Direct mapped cache
a block goes in exactly one place in the cache
Fully associative a block can go anywhere in the cache difficult to find a block parallel comparison to speed-up
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Cache Block Mapping Set associative
Each block maps to a unique set, and the block can be placed into any element of that set
Position is given by (Block number) modulo (# of sets in cache) If the sets contain n elements, then the
cache is called n-way set associative