ASSIGNMENT 7
Textbook Assignment: “Computer Memories,” chapter 6—continued, pages 6-20 through 6-32, and
“Input/Output (I/O) and Interfacing,” chapter 7, pages 7-1 through 7-20.
7-1.
7-2.
7-3.
7-4.
Semiconductor memories are known by all
of the following terms except which one?
1. Read/write memory
2. Scratch-pad memory
3. Random access memory
4. Read-only memory
Semiconductor memories have which of
the following characteristics?
1. Destructive readout and volatile
2. Destructive readout and nonvolatile
3. Non-destructive readout and volatile
4. Non-destructive readout and
nonvolatile
Each RAM chip contains which of the
following items?
1. One memory cell only
2. One memory cell and the logic to
support it only
3. Large numbers of memory cells only
4. Large numbers of memory cells and
the logic to support them
On RAM chips, memory cells are
organized based on which of the following
factors?
1. Number of memory words only
2. Number of bits per word only
3. Number of memory words and
number of bits per word
4. Number of gate arrays
7-5.
The transistors used in flip-flops of static
RAM may be MOS or bipolar. Compared
to MOS, bipolar has what advantage, if
any?
1. Higher density
2. Higher access speed
3. Requires less space
4. None, they both have the same
advantages
7-6.
In a static RAM, the address lines are used
to enable the addressed memory cell flip-
flop circuit by row and column number.
1. True
2. False
IN ANSWERING QUESTION 7-7, REFER TO
FIGURE 6-31 ON PAGE 6-24 OF THE TRAMAN.
7-7.
Data is stored, or read from, the memory
cells of SRAM via a total of how many
lines?
1 . O ne
2.
Two
3. Three
4.
Four
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