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13. Paging and Address Translation Scheme


  • Memory Paging is yet another 386 feature that permits extending the address space far beyond 4 Gb.

  • Address generated by CPU (logical address) is divided into:

    1. Page number p is an index into a page table that contains base address of each page in physical memory.

    2. Page offset d is a displacement, combined with base address to define the physical memory address that is sent to the memory unit.

  • Memory paging:

      memory paging


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