Continue to Site

Welcome to EDAboard.com

Welcome to our site! EDAboard.com is an international Electronics Discussion Forum focused on EDA software, circuits, schematics, books, theory, papers, asic, pld, 8051, DSP, Network, RF, Analog Design, PCB, Service Manuals... and a whole lot more! To participate you need to register. Registration is free. Click here to register now.

Register Log in

Addressing in Pentium architecture

Status
Not open for further replies.
M

magnetra

Full Member level 5
Joined
Apr 21, 2005
Messages
263
Helped
10
Reputation
20
Reaction score
7
Trophy points
1,298
Location
27.45N, 85.20E KTM, NP
Activity points
3,375
Addressing

In Pentium architecture, why is it that, 32-bit data is placed at an address divisible by 4?

magnetra
 

Addressing

It's not required, but it increases performance. If you misalign the data, the CPU has to access two memory locations and then splice together the partial words.
 

Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Part and Inventory Search

Welcome to EDABoard.com

Sponsor

Back
Top