A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on...

memory management unit (IOMMU) is a memory management unit (MMU) connecting a direct-memory-access–capable (DMA-capable) I/O bus to the main memory....

of the central processing unit (CPU). MPU is a trimmed down version of memory management unit (MMU) providing only memory protection support. It is usually...

operating systems, memory management is the function responsible for managing the computer's primary memory.: 105–208  The memory management function keeps...

Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied...

A memory controller, also known as memory chip controller (MCC) or a memory controller unit (MCU), is a digital circuit that manages the flow of data...

quantization for 2D graphics data. The memory management unit, RDRAM controller and DMA controller handle memory access within the system. Communications...

the memory model, paged memory functionality is usually hardwired into a CPU/MCU by using a Memory Management Unit (MMU) or Memory Protection Unit (MPU)...

assignment of real memory to virtual memory. Address translation hardware in the CPU, often referred to as a memory management unit (MMU), automatically...

store the results of ALU operations, and a control unit that orchestrates the fetching (from memory), decoding and execution (of instructions) by directing...

Nios II's basic functionality by, for example, adding a predefined memory management unit, or defining custom instructions and custom peripherals. Similar...

the computer memory can be transferred to storage; a common way of doing this is through a memory management technique called virtual memory. Modern computer...

of the chip's memory-management unit (MMU). A TLB may reside between the CPU and the CPU cache, between CPU cache and the main memory or between the...

Memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) and port-mapped I/O (PMIO) are two complementary methods of performing input/output (I/O) between the central processing unit...

oh-three-oh or oh-thirty). The 68030 is essentially a 68020 with a memory management unit (MMU) and instruction and data caches of 256 bytes each. It added...

CPUs and GPUs, with shared memory), the memory management unit (MMU) of the CPU and the input–output memory management unit (IOMMU) of the GPU have to...

translated to physical addresses by the computer's memory management unit (MMU) and the operating system's memory mapping mechanisms. Most modern computers are...

a page table. It is the smallest unit of data for memory management in an operating system that uses virtual memory. Similarly, a page frame is the smallest...

Floating-Point Unit (FPU). It thus included all of the functionality that previously required external chips, namely the FPU and Memory Management Unit (MMU),...

In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers...

C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions...

main parts: The control unit and the arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The former controls the flow of data between the CPU and memory, while the latter performs...

translation process by the memory management unit or by low-level system software or firmware. In operating systems that use virtual memory, every process is given...

office suite, and by the ad hoc protected memory implementation, due to the lack of a Motorola memory management unit. Cost-cutting measures that target the...

segmentation, computer memory addresses consist of a segment id and an offset within the segment. A hardware memory management unit (MMU) is responsible...

instructions for the central processing unit. The critical code of the kernel is usually loaded into a separate area of memory, which is protected from access...

L2, split L1 I-cache and D-cache). A memory management unit (MMU) that fetches page table entries from main memory has a specialized cache, used for recording...

computing, a page fault is an exception that the memory management unit (MMU) raises when a process accesses a memory page without proper preparations. Accessing...

(Arithmetic Logic Unit). One solution to such resource hazard is to increase available resources, such as having multiple ports into main memory and multiple...

process a memory management unit is used. The memory management unit maps logical memory to physical memory. Entries in the memory management unit include...