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The address bus is unidirectional to identify storage locations in memory for instructions or data, while the data bus is bidirectional to allow the CPU to both read from and write to memory. Specifically, the address bus sends memory addresses from the CPU to the memory, but data transfer occurs bidirectionally between CPU and memory via the data bus to support reading of data from and writing of data to memory by the CPU.

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Why Is The Data Bus Bidirectional While The Address Bus Is Unidirectional - Computer Science (Python)

The address bus is unidirectional to identify storage locations in memory for instructions or data, while the data bus is bidirectional to allow the CPU to both read from and write to memory. Specifically, the address bus sends memory addresses from the CPU to the memory, but data transfer occurs bidirectionally between CPU and memory via the data bus to support reading of data from and writing of data to memory by the CPU.

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Why is the data bus bidirectional while the address bus is unidirectional?

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The address bus is used by a microprocessor to identify the storage location in the
memory where the next data can be found or the next instruction is to be
executed.

A data bus is used to transfer data from one unit to another unit of the computer
system. Microprocessors can read data from the memory or write data to the
memory. So, the data bus is bidirectional.

Concept: Data Transfer Between Memory and CPU


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