DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name : U.Rajya Lakshmi
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : Computer Engg.,
Institute : Govt.Polytechnic for Women,
PALAMANER.
Year/Semester : III Semester
Subject : Computer Architecture
Subject Code : CM-303
Topic : Memory Organization
Duration : 50 Min
Sub Topic : Logical address and physical
address organization
Teaching aids : PPT,drawings
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 Do you Know

• What are the differences between primary memory

and secondary memory?

• What is the concept of virtual memory?

CM303.42 2
 Recap of previous lesson

• Virtual memory allows a program to use main

memory more than what a computer really has

• With the help of secondary memory , the use of

main memory can be expanded

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 Objectives

On completion of this period you would be able to

know about

• The logical address space

• The physical address space

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 Introduction Contd..

• Limited physical memory can not load in all

programs simultaneously

• Majority of programs are stored in secondary

memory

• A program must be loaded in to main memory

before its execution

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 Contd..
Introduction
• If a program is larger than main memory capacity
then the entire program cannot be loaded in to
main memory at a time
• Virtual memory concept elevates this problem with
the help of secondary memory
• Users can generate programs that need large
memory size what actually it has

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 Introduction
• This is possible by treating the secondary memory
as a consecutive extension of the main memory

• Virtual memory is the auxiliary memory of the

computer seen as main memory by application
programs

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 Logical address Contd..
• Address that indicate the position of an instruction
or data in the program

• It refers to virtual memory which is outside the

address of main memory

• Addresses used in a program are called logical

addresses

• These addresses are generated by the CPU

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 Logical Address

• Instructions in the program contain only logical

addresses

• The set of all logical addresses generated by CPU

is form logical address space

• Logical address space is also known as address

space or virtual address space

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 Physical address
• Main memory is also known as physical memory
or real memory

• Each word in the main memory is identified by a

unique physical address

• The set of all memory addresses form physical

address space

• Physical address space is also known as memory

space
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 Summary
• In this class you have studied that
• Virtual address
• address used by the programmer to
indicate the position of instructions and
data
• Virtual address space
• Set of virtual addresses
• Physical address
• Address of a word in main memory
• Physical address space
• Set of physical addresses
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QUIZ

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1. Virtual memory concept is implemented with the
help of
a) Cache memory
b) Internal processor memory
c) Secondary memory
d) Read / write memory

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1. Virtual memory concept is implemented with the
help of
• Cache memory
• Internal processor memory
• Secondary memory
• Read / write memory

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2. Physical address is

a) Secondary memory address

b) Internal memory address
c) cache memory address
d) main memory address

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2. Physical address is

• Secondary memory address

• Internal memory address
• cache memory address
• main memory address

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 Short Answer Questions

1. What is meant by virtual address and physical

address
2. Distinguish logical address space and physical
memory address

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