
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 …
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 …
Byte addressable vs Word addressable - Computer Science Stack …
Sep 8, 2019 · I am trying to understand the difference between byte addressing and word addressing. A 4-way set-associative cache memory unit with a capacity of 16 KB is built using …
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 …
computer architecture - Does word addressable memory have …
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 …
computer architecture - Advantage of byte addressable memory …
May 19, 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 …
How can memory size be 1M x 16? - Computer Science Stack …
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 …
How many words of memory map to the same cache entry?
0 I am going over some practice questions for the Major field exam and it asks: A processor with a word-addressable memory has a two-way set-associative cache. A cache line is one word, so …
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 …
How to calculate the number of tag, index and offset bits of …
Let's assume the system is byte addressable. Then each cache block contains 8 words* (4 bytes/word)=32=2 5 bytes, so the offset is 5 bits. The index for a direct mapped cache is the …