Practice Address and Data Bus Size for Different Organizations - 14.3.2 | 14. Memory Addressing and Bus Size | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 1
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Question 1

Easy

What is the maximum number of memory locations addressable by an 8-bit address bus?

💡 Hint: Think of 2 to the power of the number of bits.

Question 2

Easy

Define a byte.

💡 Hint: Consider how many bits together form a byte.

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Question 1

What is the maximum addressable memory for a 12-bit address bus?

  • 2048
  • 4096
  • 1024

💡 Hint: Use powers of two to find the answer.

Question 2

True or False: An address bus of size 32 bits can address up to 4 GB of memory.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Consider how the address size relates to memory size directly.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

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.

💡 Hint: Think about the binary representation of gigabytes in bytes.

Question 2

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.

💡 Hint: Focus on converting total capacity into memory locations.

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