Practice Address And Data Bus Size For Different Organizations (14.3.2) - Memory Addressing and Bus Size

Practice: Address and Data Bus Size for Different Organizations

Lesson 14.3.2Memory Addressing and Bus Size

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Question 1.
What is the maximum number of memory locations addressable by an 8-bit address bus?
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Think of 2 to the power of the number of bits.
Question 2.
Define a byte.
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Consider how many bits together form a byte.
3Question 3.
What is the maximum addressable memory for a 12-bit address bus?
- 2048
- 4096
- 1024
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Use powers of two to find the answer.
4Question 4.
True or False: An address bus of size 32 bits can address up to 4 GB of memory.
- True
- False
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Consider how the address size relates to memory size directly.
Question 5.
A computer system is stated to have 8 GB of RAM. Calculate the size of the address bus needed, assuming that each location in RAM can store 1 byte of data.
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Think about the binary representation of gigabytes in bytes.
Question 6.
If a system's memory consists of 2 bytes per location and has a total capacity of 16 MB, determine the size of the address bus.
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Focus on converting total capacity into memory locations.

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