Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Explain Address bus.



The address bus is used to specify the physical memory address. This can include primary memory (eg: RAM and ROM), secondary memory (eg: hard disk) and other connected devices. The width of the address bus determines the amount of memory that can be addressed. A 32-bit bus can address 232 bytes of memory (4294967296). This explains the 4 GB memory restriction on 32-bit operating system.

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