In direct mapping the presence of the block in memory is checked with the help of block field.

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• The associative mapping is costlier than direct mapping.
• In associative mapping during LRU, the counter of the new block is set to ‘0’ and all the others are incremented by one, when            occurs.
• In associative mapping during LRU, the counter of the new block is set to ‘0’ and all the others are incremented by one when            occurs.
• While using the direct mapping technique, in a 16 bit system the higher order 5 bits are used for                   
• In associative mapping, in a 16 bit system the tag field has               bits.
•            directive is used to specify and assign the memory required for the block of code.
• In set associative and associative mapping there exists less flexibility.
• The larger memory placed between the primary cache and the memory is called               
• In the memory hierarchy, as the speed of operation increases the memory size also increases.
• The approach where the memory contents are transferred directly to the processor from the memory is called