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Translation Lookaside Buffer

Maps virtual memory addresses to physical addresses. Resides below the caches, i.e. in the caches everything is virtual addresses. Virtual addresses are unique and refer to the same physical address in every context. They only need to to be referenced when there is a cache miss and a DRAM access becomes neccessary.