CHAPTER 4 The Components of the System 4. Memory 课件

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1、CHAPTER4TheComponentsoftheSystemUnitMemoryMainMemoryMainmemory–acollectionofstoragelocations,eachwithauniqueidentifiercalledtheaddress.Word-Dataaretransferredtoandfrommemoryingroupsofbitscalledwords.ThenumberofbitsthatcanbestoredinoneCPUregisterinacomputer.Figure5-3MainmemoryAddressSpaceAl

2、thoughprogrammersuseanametoidentifyaword,atthehardwarelevel,eachwordisidentifiedbyanaddress.Addressspace-Thetotalnumberofuniquelyidentifiablelocationsinmemory.Forexample:amemorywith64KBandawordsizeof1bytehasanaddressspacethatrangefrom0to65535.Table5.1MemoryunitsUnit------------KB-kilobyte

3、MB-megabyteGB-gigabyteTB-terabytePB-petabyteEB-exabyteExactNumberofbytes------------------------210bytes220bytes230bytes240bytes250bytes260bytesApproximation------------103bytes106bytes109bytes1012bytes1015bytes1018bytesAddressasBitPatternBecausecomputersoperatebystoringnumbersasbitpattern

4、s,theaddressitselfisalsorepresentedasabitpattern.IfacomputerhasNwordsofmemory,youneedanunsignedintegerofsizelog2Nbitstorefertoeachmemorylocation.Memoryaddressesaredefinedusingunsignedbinaryintegers.Note:Example1Acomputerhas32MB(megabytes)ofmemory.Howmanybitsareneededtoaddressanysinglebytei

5、nmemory?SolutionThememoryaddressspaceis32MB,or225(25x220).Thismeansyouneedlog2225or25bits,toaddresseachbyte.Example2Acomputerhas128MBofmemory.Eachwordinthiscomputeris8bytes.Howmanybitsareneededtoaddressanysinglewordinmemory?SolutionThememoryaddressspaceis128MB,whichmeans227.However,eachwor

6、dis8(23)bytes,whichmeansthatyouhave224words.Thismeansyouneedlog2224or24bits,toaddresseachword.MemoryTypesRAM(RandomAccessMemory)VolatileR/WbyuserTwocategories:DRAM(DynamicRAM)RefreshusedinmostPCsSRAM(StaticRAM)Norefreshfaster、morereliablemoreexpensiveoftenusedonlyasamemorycacheMemoryTypesR

7、OM(ReadOnlyMemory)NonvolatileWrittenbymanufactureHoldthebootingprogramCategories:ROMPROM(ProgrammableROM)-WriteoncebyuserEPROM(ErasablePROM)-physicalremovalandreinstallationbyspecialdeviceEEPROM(ElectronicallyEPROM)-withoutbeingremovedfromcomputerFigure5-4Memo