ITDR2102: Computer Organization – Tutorial Answers

Tutorial 7
From Lecture 7 (Memory – Part1)

1. How many address bits are required to access 256K words of memory?
Answer:
256K = 256 X 210 = 28 X 210 = 218  18 address bits
2. How many bytes of memory can be addressed by 24 address bits?

Answer:
224 = 16,777,216 Bytes

3. If a computer can have a maximum of 256MB of memory, how many address bits are
required?
Answer:
256MB = 256 X 220 = 28 X 220 = 228  28 address bits

4. A disk drive has 4 double sided platters. Each surface has 400 tracks. Each track is divided
into 50 sectors. There are 512 bytes in each sector. What is the capacity of each cylinder?
What is the capacity of the disk drive?
Answer:

5. What is an EPROM?
Answer:
• EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.
• Erasure process can be performed repeatedly.
• More expensive than PROM but it has the advantage of the multiple update
capability.

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