Question

The correspondence between the main memory blocks and those in the cache is given by _________

(a) Hash function

(b) Mapping function

(c) Locale function

(d) Assign function

The question was asked during an internship interview.

My question is taken from Caches in section Memory System of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) Mapping function

The best I can explain: The mapping function is used to map the contents of the memory to the cache.