Practice Memory Organization and Instruction Representation - 21.1 | 21. Memory Organization and Instruction Representation | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 1
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Question 1

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What does the Address Bus do?

💡 Hint: Think about how computers locate data in memory.

Question 2

Easy

What is an Accumulator?

💡 Hint: Consider it as holding results of calculations.

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Question 1

What does a wider memory width potentially lead to?

  • Increased efficiency
  • More complexity in instruction processing
  • Less wasted memory

💡 Hint: Focus on how multiple commands might affect the processing.

Question 2

True or False: An address bus size of 30 bits allows access to 2^30 bytes of memory.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Think of each bit doubling the address space available.

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Question 1

If a computer has a memory organization of 16-bit words and a total memory size of 2^30 bytes, how many total addresses are possible?

💡 Hint: Use division to relate memory size to word size.

Question 2

Design a modular memory system for a 1MB memory using 256KB chips. Explain how you would set up the address bus.

💡 Hint: Think about how many bits are needed to represent the total memory.

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