Practice - Address and Data Bus Size for Different Organizations
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Practice Questions
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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.
Define a byte.
💡 Hint: Consider how many bits together form a byte.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the maximum addressable memory for a 12-bit address bus?
💡 Hint: Use powers of two to find the answer.
True or False: An address bus of size 32 bits can address up to 4 GB of memory.
💡 Hint: Consider how the address size relates to memory size directly.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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