Memory Locatıons and Addresses (Week 3) - ppt download

Memory Locatıons and Addresses (Week 3) - ppt download: Memory Locations and addresses We will first consider how the memory of a computer is organized. The memory consists of many millions of storage cells, each of which can store a bit of information having the value 0 or 1. Because a single bit represents a very small amount of information, bits are seldom handled individually. The usual approach is to deal with them in groups of fixed size. For this purpose, the memory is organized so that a group of n bits can be stored or retrieved in a single, basic operation. Each group of n bits is referred to as a word of information, and n is called the word length. The memory of a computer can be schematically represented as a collection of words. CENG Spring Dr. Yuriy ALYEKSYEYENKOV