Memory Management Unit (MMU)

• Used to translate Virtual Memory to pysical memory
• Makes use of Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
• Memory Controller

• Accesses the translation table set up by the OS
• Checks access rights
• Two options:
  1. [Software] Structure of the page table is controlled by OS
     • TLB has to be manually accessed by the OS
  2. [Hardware] Page table has a specific fromat defined by hardware
     • TLB is handled by the hardware