Practice Calculating Address Bus Size For Different Memory Locations (14.2.3) - Memory Addressing and Bus Size

Practice: Calculating Address Bus Size for Different Memory Locations

Lesson 14.2.3Memory Addressing and Bus Size

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Question 1.
How many memory locations can an 8-bit address bus address?
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Calculate 2 to the power of the bits.
Question 2.
Convert the decimal number 255 to hexadecimal.
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Double-check common hexadecimal values.
3Question 3.
How many memory locations can a 16-bit address bus access?
- 65536
- 1024
- 256
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Remember the formula for calculating memory addressability.
4Question 4.
True or False: An 8-bit address bus can address 256 locations in binary.
- True
- False
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Think about the range from 0 to 255.
Question 5.
A memory module with a capacity of 8GB is organized using 16 bits per address. Calculate the number of memory locations available and the size of the address bus.
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Convert GB to bytes and apply the addressing formula.
Question 6.
Your computer's architecture allows a maximum of 4 Giga locations. If it uses a data bus of 64 bits, how many bytes can be addressed per location?
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Consider how locations and the size of the data bus relate.

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