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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1999
Makoto Furuhashi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Logical addresses start from different base addresses for respective numbers of bits of data making up words. One physical address in a main memory corresponds to a plurality of logical addresses, and an address converter has an association table of physical and logical addresses. The address converter decides which base address an entered logical address belongs to for thereby determining the number of bits of data of one word, and determines a physical address so as to be able to read words corresponding to the number of bits from the main memory. Words made up of different numbers of bits can quickly be converted from logical addresses into physical addresses.