address bus

<processor>

The connections between the CPU and memory which carry the address from/to which the CPU wishes to read or write. The number of bits of address bus determines the maximum size of memory which the processor can access.

See also data bus.

Last updated: 1995-03-22

Nearby terms:

address ♦ address book ♦ address bus ♦ addressed call mode ♦ addressee

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