Scribd
Upload
51 views

Data Bus Size

An address bus is a computer bus that specifies the physical address of data to be read or written from memory. The width of the address bus determines how much memory can be addressed - for example, a 32-bit address bus can address up to 4GB of memory. Early processors used a separate wire for each address bit, but to reduce pins multiplexed addressing was developed, sending the address in two parts. Individual bytes are often accessed by reading or writing the full word size at once from memory.

Uploaded by

neeraj_k_d
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
51 views

Data Bus Size

An address bus is a computer bus that specifies the physical address of data to be read or written from memory. The width of the address bus determines how much memory can be addressed - for example, a 32-bit address bus can address up to 4GB of memory. Early processors used a separate wire for each address bit, but to reduce pins multiplexed addressing was developed, sending the address in two parts. Individual bytes are often accessed by reading or writing the full word size at once from memory.

Uploaded by

neeraj_k_d
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Computer Desktop Encyclopedia:

address bus
Top
Home > Library > Technology > Computer Encyclopedia

An internal channel from the CPU to memory across which the addresses of data (not the data)
are transmitted. The number of lines (wires) in the address bus determines the amount of
memory that can be directly addressed as each line carries one bit of the address. For example, a
20-line address bus represents the binary number 1,048,576 and reaches that number of memory
bytes (the size of the address bus in the IBM PC in 1981). A computer with a 32-bit address bus
can directly address 4GB of physical memory, while one with 36 bits can address 64GB.

Download Computer Desktop Encyclopedia to your iPhone/iTouch

Sponsored Links
Play the Game,Win the Car
Spot 1 Similarity in Vista & Indica And Drive Away with a New Car 
SurpriseYourself.in
Car
Spark comes with S-Tec Engine which makes it Perfect City Car 
ChevySpark.in/Test-Drive
Wikipedia:

Address bus
Top
Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia
This article does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be
challenged and removed. (June 2009)
An address bus is a computer bus (a series of lines connecting two or more devices) that is used
to specify a physical address. When a processor or DMA-enabled device needs to read or write
to a memory location, it specifies that memory location on the address bus (the value to be read
or written is sent on the data bus). The width of the address bus determines the amount of
memory a system can address. For example, a system with a 32-bit address bus can address 232
(4,294,967,296) memory locations. If each memory address holds one byte, the addressable
memory space is 4 GB.

Implementation
Early processors used a wire for each bit of the address width. For example, a 16-bit address bus
had 16 physical wires making up the bus. As the buses became wider, this approach became
expensive in terms of the number of chip pins and board traces. Beginning with the Mostek 4096
DRAM, multiplexed addressing became common. In a multiplexed address scheme, the address
is sent in two equal parts. This halves the number of address bus signals required to connect to
the memory. For example a 32-bit address bus can be implemented by using 16 wires and
sending the first half of the memory address, immediately followed by the second half.

Interesting examples
Accessing an individual byte frequently requires reading or writing the full bus width (a word) at
once. In these instances the least significant bits of the address bus may not even be implemented
- it is instead the responsibility of the controlling device to isolate the individual byte required
from the complete word transmitted. This is the case, for instance, with the VESA Local Bus
which lacks the two least significant bits, limiting this bus to aligned 32-bit transfers.

Historically, there were also some examples of computers which were only able to address
words.

In 16bit microprocessor what are the size of data bus and address bus?
In: Computer Hardware, Intel 8085, Intel 8086 and 8088 [Edit categories]

Hardware & Networking


Complete Info on Hardware Course, Fees & Institutes in India
minglebox.com/Hardware-Networking
[Improve]

A 16-bit uP operates on instructions and data in 16-bit quantities. Therefore the databus is 16-
bits. A 16-bit uP may also operate on larger quantities of data, however multiple CPU registers
must be concatenated in order to maintain the data element in the uP register space. The data is
always delivered to the processor 16 bits at a time.

The amount of memory which it can address is a separate issue---the address bus size is totally
distinct from the data bus size. The data bus determines how much memory may be delivered
to the uP per cycle. The address bus size determines how much physical memory may actually
be accessed by the uP. Therefore it is variable depending on how much memory is available.
Typical systems today have 32-bit address busses which limit addressable memory to
4Gigabytes. (2^32) = 4G.

You might also like