Cache Mva And Set/Way Formats; Figure 4-1 Generic Virtually Indexed Virtually Addressed Cache - ARM ARM926EJ-S Technical Reference Manual

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Cache MVA and Set/Way formats

Vitual index, virtual tag
ARM DDI0198D
This section shows how the MVA and Set/Way formats of ARM926EJ-S caches map to
a generic virtually indexed, virtually addressed cache.
Figure 4-1 shows a generic, virtually indexed, virtually addressed cache.
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Figure 4-1 Generic virtually indexed virtually addressed cache

The ARM926EJ-S cache format is shown in Figure 4-2 on page 4-10.
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