No of chips

Question

A memory system of size 16 kbytes is required to be designed using memory chips which have 12 address lines and 4 data lines each.

No of chips required to design the memory system ______.

Please provide a detailed solution.

Comments

https://gateoverflow.in/14672/many-256-ram-chips-are-needed-organize-memory-capacity-32kb

Ans -8

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Correct!

Please can you elaborate?

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@Tuhin Dutta

Answer:8

Following is a diagram of 32 KB memory using 12 x 4 assuming byte addressing

For 16 KB change 3 to 8 Decoder to 2 to 4 and only 4 rows instead of 8

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Thanks.