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- Sheetal Gosrani
Overview
Memory Hierarchy
RAM
Memory Chip Organization
ROM
Flash Memory
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Memory Hierarchy
Increasing performance
and
increasing cost
Slow and
inexpensive
power
but access time is very long compared to
registers
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Static RAM
Dynamic RAM
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RAM chip
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RAM Grid
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RAM Grid
During read operation:
Entire row is selected
It is fed into the column MUX
MUX selects a single bit for output
During write operation:
Single bit to be written is distributed by the DEMUX
to the target column
Row decoder selects the proper column to be
written
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Flash Memory
A section of memory cells can be erased in a
single step, or 'flash', thus the name
Nonvolatile memory
Flash memory is used for easy and fast
information storage in such devices as digital
cameras, mobile, video game consoles
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References
Thank you
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