The physical address of required data in memory identifies its physical location. The user never interacts directly with the physical address, but rather with its logical address.
The user programme creates the logical address and believes the programme is executing in that address; however, the application requires physical memory to execute, therefore the logical address must be mapped to the physical address by MMU before it can be used.
Physical addresses have the following characteristics:
The physical address, as the name implies, refers to the actual location stored in the memory.
They are utilised by the CPU to specify the address range.
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