This article is about computer memory addressing. For the meaning in networking, see MAC address. For addresses of physical locations, see Address.
In computing, a physical address (also real address, or binary address), is a memory address that is represented in the form of a binary number on the address bus circuitry in order to enable the data bus to access a particular storage cell of main memory, or a register of memory-mapped I/O device.
In computing, PhysicalAddress Extension (PAE), sometimes referred to as Page Address Extension, is a memory management feature for the x86 architecture...
burned-in address, or as an Ethernet hardware address, hardware address, or physicaladdress. Each address can be stored in the interface hardware, such...
without revealing one's physicaladdress or even having a fixed physicaladdress. Examples are post office boxes, service addresses and poste restante (general...
memory consists of many memory locations. Each memory location has a physicaladdress which is a code. The CPU (or other device) can use the code to access...
virtual memory to physical memory. It is used to reduce the time taken to access a user memory location. It can be called an address-translation cache...
cell or other logical or physical entity. For software programs to save and retrieve stored data, each datum must have an address where it can be located...
virtual addresses and physicaladdresses. Virtual addresses are used by the program executed by the accessing process, while physicaladdresses are used...
that sends packets out of the local network. The gateway has a physical and a logical address. The gateway operates at the network layer (Layer 3) of the...
physicaladdress bits and are thus limited to 4 GiB (232 words) of memory. x86 processors prior to the Pentium Pro have 32 or fewer physicaladdress bits;...
address is mapped into different physicaladdresses (homonym), which can be solved by using physicaladdress for tagging, or by storing the address space...
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses...
requests access to memory, the processor translates the virtual address to a physicaladdress using a page table or translation lookaside buffer (TLB). When...
hardware and software, maps memory addresses used by a program, called virtual addresses, into physicaladdresses in computer memory. Main storage, as...
address space (starting from address zero). Since the 80286, all x86 CPUs have at least 24 physicaladdress lines, and bit 20 of the computed address...
known as virtual memory addresses, into physicaladdresses in main memory. In modern systems, programs generally have addresses that access the theoretical...
to usable physical RAM may be present. An operating system may only be designed to allocate a certain amount of memory, with upper address bits reserved...
resulting address location. In reality, the physicaladdress is distributed along the length of the segment, i.e. consider geocoding the address of a shopping...
have different address spaces: if on the same host machine, they have distinct virtual address spaces, even though the physicaladdress space is the same;...
same address space for both physical memory and to communicate with hardware devices. Thus, installed hardware devices need some of the address space...
increase the memory capacity beyond the limits imposed by the processor's physicaladdress space, but the key feature of a flat memory model is that the entire...
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