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  1. difference between "addressable" and "address" in memory?

    Aug 23, 2020 · Assume the memory is 4-byte addressable. MY QUESTION IS: what is the difference between an "address" and "the memory is 4 byte addressable"? I understand an address would be …

  2. computer architecture - Word- or byte-addressable? Correct …

    Aug 19, 2015 · Page-addressable, block-addressable? Bit-addressable, byte-addressable and word-addressable are the only terms I've seen use. It doesn't make much sense to address only units …

  3. Byte addressable vs Word addressable - Computer Science Stack …

    Sep 8, 2019 · Word addressing means that, the number of lines in the address bus in the processor is lesser than the number of bits in the word itself. Lets say we have a 4 byte word. (32 bit address …

  4. computer architecture - Advantage of byte addressable memory over …

    May 20, 2015 · With byte addressable memory and a 32 bit address you can have 4GB while with word addressable memory you can have 4GB * wordsize. Are single bytes used that much that you can't …

  5. Why does a 32 bit address only contain 1 byte, when 32 bits = 4 bytes?

    Feb 19, 2023 · I am really confused about it. I think 32 bits = 4 bytes but 32 bit address is only 1 bit.

  6. Memory access on byte/word addressable memory [duplicate]

    Apr 22, 2015 · a) Main memory is word addressable b) Main memory is byte addressable I have read this question Word- or byte-addressable? Correct terminology but it did not clear up my …

  7. What is the maximum directly adddressable memory capacity?

    Consider a 32-bit microprocessor composed of 2 fields: the first byte contains the opcode and remainder an immediate operand or an operand address. What is the maximum directly addressable memory …

  8. Loading a word from byte-addressable cache - Computer Science …

    how can a Byte-Addressable memory output more than 1 Byte at a time? But considering that memory has a single output - Its output size has to stay fixed. If it's designed in a way that each call to …

  9. Relation between size of address bus and memory size; memory ...

    Mar 3, 2020 · What I don't understand is that how does 2^20 different address locations mean 1 MB of addressable memory? How is total number of different addresses locations related to memory size …

  10. How can memory size be 1M x 16? - Computer Science Stack Exchange

    Feb 24, 2017 · Bits in an addressable memory location - 16 in this example. Addressable memory locations - 1M = 2^20 in this example. CPU word size 1M = 2^20, while the max number of memory …