The Kiwi™ memory architecture design team has a dilemma.  The team is considering several different memory configuration variations for an upcoming machine design.  Consider the following designs (All memory accesses are in terms of bytes, and all are using paging techniques):

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The Kiwi™ memory architecture design team has a dilemma.  The team is considering several different memory configuration variations for an upcoming machine design.  Consider the following designs (All memory accesses are in terms of bytes, and all are using paging techniques):

 

Characteristic

Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

Physical Memory Address Width

8 bit

16 bit

32 bit

Logical Address Width

12 bit

20 bit

24 bit

Page/Frame size in bytes

16 bytes

32 bytes

64 bytes

Page Table Type

Single

Single

Double

a) For each design, list the maximum number of pages each process can access in logical address space.

b) For each design, list the maximum number of frames in physical memory.

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