A 256kiB (2^18 bytes) cache has a block size of 32 bytes and is 32-way set-associative.
How many bits of a 32-bit address will be in the Tag, Index, and Bock Offset?
Solution :
tag bits = 19, index bits = 8,
offset bits = 5
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