Practice - Memory Organization and Instruction Representation
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Practice Questions
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What does the Address Bus do?
💡 Hint: Think about how computers locate data in memory.
What is an Accumulator?
💡 Hint: Consider it as holding results of calculations.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a wider memory width potentially lead to?
💡 Hint: Focus on how multiple commands might affect the processing.
True or False: An address bus size of 30 bits allows access to 2^30 bytes of memory.
💡 Hint: Think of each bit doubling the address space available.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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