Practice - Capacity of Memory Based on Address Bus Size
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Practice Questions
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What is the range of memory locations for a 10-bit address bus?
💡 Hint: Recall that the address bus allows accessing 2^n locations.
If an 8-bit address bus can access 256 locations, what is 2^8?
💡 Hint: This is a direct application of the memory addressing formula.
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What does an 8-bit address bus allow?
💡 Hint: Think about the address calculation method.
True or False: The address capacity can be represented as 2^n.
💡 Hint: Recap the relationship between bits and memory addressing.
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Challenge Problems
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You have a 16-bit address bus connected to a memory module. How many memory locations can you access, and what is the range of addresses?
💡 Hint: Use the formula 2^n to calculate.
If a memory module has a capacity of 4GB and allows 4 bytes per memory location, how many memory locations does it have, and what size of address bus is needed?
💡 Hint: Remember how to convert GB to bytes.
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