Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 5 - Exercises - Page 273: 5

Answer

Dimensions: $1024\times1024$. MAR size: $20$ bits

Work Step by Step

1MB = $2^{20}$ bytes The dimensions of the memory will be $1024\times1024$. The MAR will have 20 bits to store the $2^{20}$ addresses. The row and column decoder both will have 10 bits and both decoder will give one line as output whose intersection will point to that memory location.
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