Oct 19, 2018 · Data bus: The data bus is an electrical path that connects the cpu,memory and the other hardware devices on the motherboard. the number of wires in the data bus affects the …

Jan 2, 2021 · If you have an address bus of width 32, you can access 2 ^ 32 = 4294967296, addresses, which is around 4 GB of RAM memory. That's the reason you can't install more …

Sep 25, 2011 · For example, to represent 4 words, you need 4 addresses, 2 raised to 2 is 4, so you need two bits. 00 is the address of the first word, 01 is the address of the second word, 10 …

Mar 7, 2013 · In principle, one can map a small virtual address space to a large physical one (as done earlier e.g. in the PDP11 computers), but nowadays mostly a larger virtual address …

Nov 8, 2017 · Most modern machines are byte-addressable (8-bit) meaning that each address refers to 1 byte. In this case, assuming that you have an n-bit processor with a matching n-bit …

Dec 10, 2020 · And the the bus sizes doesn't indicate word-size or addressable range. Take for example the venerable Motorola 68000 CPU, which had an external 16-bit data bus and a 24 …

Jul 16, 2011 · Any answer referring to the bus size and physical memory is slightly mistaken, since OP's question was about virtual address space not physical address space. For example …

Sep 17, 2014 · Probably, you shouldn't involve bus here. I suspect that you calculated something like 'bandwidth': having 2-bytes-wide bus you can transfer twice than 1-byte-wide bus. But bus …

In ancient times, the old MC68000 had 32 bit registers but only a 24 bit address bus. For the i5 consider that a 64 bit address would control a mind boggling memory space of 17,179,869,184 …

Nov 28, 2019 · According to some sources, the PowerPC 7xx family has a 64-bit data bus, but a 32-bit address bus. I wonder what's the difference between those two, in especially: If we talk …