A computer uses RAM chips of 1024 x 1 capacity. a. How many chips are needed, an

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A computer uses RAM chips of 1024 x 1 capacity. a. How many chips are needed, and how should their addresslines be connected to provide a memory capacity of 1024bytes? b. How many chips are needed to provide a memory capacity of16K bytes? Explain in words how the chips are to be connected tothe address bus. A computer uses RAM chips of 1024 x 1 capacity. a. How many chips are needed, and how should their addresslines be connected to provide a memory capacity of 1024bytes? b. How many chips are needed to provide a memory capacity of16K bytes? Explain in words how the chips are to be connected tothe address bus.

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a. 8 RAM chips required to provide a memory capacity of1024bytes.
address buss are connected parallel to all 8 chips.
b. 16 x 8 chips are required of capicity 16Kbytes.
there will be 16 chip array of size 8.
there will be 14 bits address. first 4 bits will select chip array of size 8. ( like inexample a.) and other 10 bits will select address inside the chiparray.

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