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address-decoding
- Sep 9, 2026 How a Microcontroller Memory Map Assigns Meaning to Every Address How fixed address regions are decoded on a microcontroller, why peripherals sit at constant addresses, and what the bus does with an address that nothing claims. embedded systems
- Sep 6, 2025 Two Address Spaces: Port-Mapped and Memory-Mapped I/O Decoding Why the 8080 family reserved a separate 256-byte I/O space, how the control signals distinguish it from memory, and what each arrangement costs in address decoding and instruction width. computing history
- Oct 24, 2024 Set Associativity and the Address Bits a Cache Decodes How a physical address splits into tag, index, and offset, why direct-mapped and fully associative arrays are the two ends of one trade, and what conflict misses actually cost. memory systems