A processor with memory management has a 4K page size. It has a 32K cache memory with 16?byte cache lines. In order to speed up memory access, you decide to arrange the cache so that the cache is accessed at the same time a logical to physical address translation is taking place. In order for the scheme to work, what level of associativity must be implemented?

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The cache must look like a memory page to the computer; that is, it must be spanned by address bits A00 to A11
(i.e., 4K). The memory is actually 8 x 4K = 32K which corresponds to an associativity of 8.

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