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title: "List the features of physical addresses?"  
description: "List the features of physical addresses?"  
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published: 2022-05-09  
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# List the features of physical addresses?

List the features of [physical](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82619/leave-digital-live-physical) addresses?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- The **physical address** of required data in [**memory**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97171/explain-some-memory-components) 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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