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Chapter 6
Memory Management Unit
This chapter describes the Memory Management Unit (MMU) and how it is used. It contains the
following sections:
• About the MMU on page 6-2
• TLB organization on page 6-4
• Memory access sequence on page 6-7
• Enabling and disabling the MMU on page 6-9
• Memory access control on page 6-11
• Memory region attributes on page 6-14
• Memory attributes and types on page 6-20
• MMU aborts on page 6-27
• MMU fault checking on page 6-29
• Fault status and address on page 6-34
• Hardware page table translation on page 6-36
• MMU descriptors on page 6-43
• MMU software-accessible registers on page 6-53.