Question

Which of the following address is seen by the memory unit?

(a) logical address

(b) physical address

(c) virtual address

(d) memory address

This question was posed to me by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

I'd like to ask this question from Segmentation and Paging in section Memory Systems of Embedded Systems

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) physical address

To elaborate: The logical address is the address generated by the CPU. It is also known as virtual address. The physical address is the address which is seen by the memory unit.