Practice Speed Discrepancy Between Memory And Processor (14.2.1) - Memory Addressing and Bus Size
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Speed Discrepancy Between Memory and Processor

Practice - Speed Discrepancy Between Memory and Processor

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Question 1 Easy

What is the maximum number of memory locations an 8-bit address bus can access?

💡 Hint: Think of powers of 2.

Question 2 Easy

How many bytes are in one kilobyte?

💡 Hint: This one has a prefix that might help!

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Question 1

How many memory locations can a 10-bit address bus address?

512
1024
256

💡 Hint: Use the power of two for this calculation.

Question 2

True or False: 1 Kilobyte is exactly 1000 bytes.

True
False

💡 Hint: Remember the difference between decimal and binary representations.

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Challenge 1 Hard

A processor has a 64-bit address bus. Calculate how many memory locations it can address in Gigabytes.

💡 Hint: Remember to convert to Gigabytes after calculating the total.

Challenge 2 Hard

Design a system where you can store 3 Gigabytes of data. What will be the required address bus size and data bus size if each memory location can store 8 bits?

💡 Hint: Calculate the required address bits for the total number of addresses.

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