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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. 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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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.

  5. 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 …

  6. 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 …

  7. computer architecture - I am a little bit confused about how to ...

    0 This formula assumes that memory is word-addressable rather than byte-addressable. The number of words that can be addressed is $2^n$. If you want to convert this from words to bytes, you can use …

  8. 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 …

  9. computer architecture - Does word addressable memory have more …

    1 Well, my question - if word addressable memory has more bytes than byte addressable memory - is derived from the fact that in word addressable memory each address addresses a word and in byte …

  10. How can a 32bit CPU have an addressable memory size of 16TB?

    Oct 16, 2019 · Frequently, on a 32-bit CPU, each page-table entry is 4 bytes long, but that size can vary as well. A 32-bit entry can point to one of $2^{32}$ physical page frames. If frame size is 4 KB (212), ...