Memory Chip Design


Q11.

A RAM chip has a capacity of 1024 words of 8 bits each (1K x 8). The number of 2 x 4 decoders with enable line needed to construct a 16K x 16 RAM from 1K x 8 RAM is
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Q12.

The amount of ROM needed to implement a 4 bit multiplier is
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Q13.

How many 32K x 1 RAM chips are needed to provide a memory capacity of 256Kbytes?
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Q14.

What is the minimum size of ROM required to store the complete truth table of an 8-bit \times 8-bit multiplier?
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Q15.

Choose the correct alternatives (more than one may be correct) and write the corresponding letters only: The advantages of CMOS technology over a MOS is:
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Q16.

The capacity of a memory unit is defined by the number of words multiplied by the number of bits/word. How many separate address and data lines are needed for a memory of 4K \times 16?
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Q17.

Number of chips (128 \times 8 RAM) needed to provide a memory capacity of 2048 bytes
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Q18.

A main memory unit with a capacity of 4 megabytes is built using 1Mx1-bit DRAM chips. Each DRAM chip has 1K rows of cells with 1K cells in each row. The time taken for a single refresh operation is 100 nanoseconds. The time required to perform one refresh operation on all the cells in the memory unit is
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Q19.

In comparison with static RAM memory, the dynamic Ram memory has
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Q20.

A ROM is used to store the table for multiplication of two 8-bit unsigned integers. The size of ROM required is
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