A 4-way set associative cache memory unit with a capacity of 16 KB is

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A 4-way set associative cache memory unit with a capacity of 16 KB is built using a block size of 8 words. The word length is 32 bits. The size of the physical address space is 4 GB. Find the number of bits for TAG, SET, and WORD fields in the address generated by CPU.

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