Practice Addressing Memory Vs I/o Devices (14.3.3)

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Question 1.
How many memory locations can an 8-bit address bus access?
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Think about how powers of 2 work.
Question 2.
What is 1KB in bytes in the binary system?
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Remember the difference between binary and metric units.
3Question 3.
What is the maximum number of memory locations that can be addressed by a 12-bit address bus?
- 2048
- 4096
- 8192
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Consider powers of two.
4Question 4.
True or False: An address bus and data bus can share the same lines in a computer.
- True
- False
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Think about how devices can share resources.
Question 5.
A computer system has a 32-bit address bus. Calculate the maximum memory capacity in gigabytes that can be accessed.
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Use the capacity calculation formula based on the address bus.
Question 6.
You have a memory module with 16KB of space. If each location holds 2 bytes, how many memory locations can be addressed?
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Calculate the number of locations by dividing the total space by the bytes per location.

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