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

Practice - Calculating Address Bus Size for Different Memory Locations

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

How many memory locations can an 8-bit address bus address?

💡 Hint: Calculate 2 to the power of the bits.

Question 2 Easy

Convert the decimal number 255 to hexadecimal.

💡 Hint: Double-check common hexadecimal values.

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Question 1

How many memory locations can a 16-bit address bus access?

65536
1024
256

💡 Hint: Remember the formula for calculating memory addressability.

Question 2

True or False: An 8-bit address bus can address 256 locations in binary.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the range from 0 to 255.

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Challenge 1 Hard

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.

💡 Hint: Convert GB to bytes and apply the addressing formula.

Challenge 2 Hard

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?

💡 Hint: Consider how locations and the size of the data bus relate.

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