# Memory Management

This chapter describes the Vertex-32 and Vertex-64 architecture's memory
management facilities, including physical memory requirements and paging.

## Memory Management Overview

The Vertex family of processors provide facilities to perform demand-paged
paging algorithms. Although recommended for most applications, the paging
mechanism can be disabled and memory can then be access directly. Segmentation,
such as what is found on Intel's x86 architecture, is not supported.