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A cache line is 64bytes. The main memory
has latency 32ns and bandwidth 1GB/s.
The time required to fetch the entire cache
line from the main memory is

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96ns
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128ns
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64ns
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32ns
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Solution

The correct option is A 96ns
A cache line size=64Bytes

So cache access time=64B2GBps=64nsec

Total time to fetch the entire cache
=Main m/m latency+Transfer time




=32nsec+64nsec=96nsec

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