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What does an address bus do?
Think about where data is stored.
How many addresses can a 10-bit address bus access?
Calculate based on powers of 2.
How many unique addresses can a 16-bit address bus generate?
Calculate using powers of 2.
True or False: A 10-bit address bus can access 512 locations.
Consider what 2^10 equals.
You have a 4GB RAM system. If you upgrade to 8GB with the same architecture, what will be the new address bus size?
Address bus size doesn’t change with memory size upgrades unless the architecture is also upgraded.
If a 256KB memory module uses word organization (2 bytes per word), how many address locations are needed?
Convert KB to bytes and divide by bytes per word.
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