diff --git a/DRAMSys/simulator/src/controller/core/configuration/Configuration.cpp b/DRAMSys/simulator/src/controller/core/configuration/Configuration.cpp
index b132f283..62959c6f 100644
--- a/DRAMSys/simulator/src/controller/core/configuration/Configuration.cpp
+++ b/DRAMSys/simulator/src/controller/core/configuration/Configuration.cpp
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ unsigned int Configuration::getSimMemSizeInBytes()
 unsigned int Configuration::getDataBusWidth()
 {
     unsigned int dataBusWidth = memSpec.bitWidth * NumberOfDevicesOnDIMM;
+    assert(dataBusWidth > 0);
     return dataBusWidth;
 }
 
@@ -262,6 +263,15 @@ unsigned int Configuration::getBytesPerBurst()
     // First multiply to get the number of bits in a burst, then divide by 8 to get the value in bytes. The order is important. Think on a single x4 device.
     unsigned int bytesPerBurst = (memSpec.BurstLength * getDataBusWidth()) / 8;
     assert(bytesPerBurst > 0);
+
+    if (NumberOfDevicesOnDIMM > 1) {
+        // The least significant bits of the physical address are the byte
+        // offset of the N-byte-wide memory module (a single data word has N
+        // bytes. N = 2^(# bits for byte offset)).
+        unsigned int dataWordSizeInBytes = xmlAddressDecoder::getInstance().amount["bytes"];
+        assert(bytesPerBurst == (dataWordSizeInBytes * memSpec.BurstLength));
+    }
+
     return bytesPerBurst;
 }