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RAM 1 Quiz

51 questions · Computer Engineering

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1. A stick of DRAM is also called

2. RAM is directly connected to CPU through

3. How are memory channels shared

4. Data mapping tables

5. Power to DRAM is sent by motherboard and the RAM manages it through

6. How many bank groups is a 2GB DRAM die split into?

7. A 2GB DRAM Die has how many total banks

8. Inside the bank is a massive ____ with 65,536 cells tall by 8,192 cells wide.

9. In order to access 17 billion memory cells, we need to use

10. In 31 bit address, the first 3 bits are for

11. In 31 bit address, 2 bits are for

12. In 31 bit address, 16 bits are for

13. Because memory chip writes 8 bits at a time,

14. In 31 bit address, 10 bits are for

15. 31 bit address is broken into

16. 31 bit address data is sent using ____ wires

17. A memory cell inside of an array is called

18. Part 1 of DRAM cell is a capacitor that

19. Part 2 of DRAM cell is a transistor that

20. The DRAM capacitor is shaped like

21. The word line wire connects to the ____ of the transistor

22. The bit-line wire connects to

23. Applying a voltage to the wordline

24. In an array, each of the word lines is connected in

25. Bitlines are connected in

26. 15 bits are sent to a Row Decoder to

27. What gets turned on when a row is active

28. 10 bits go into Column multiplexer and

29. Where are the Sense Amplifiers

30. The first 5 bits in Read process do not select specific bank

31. Wordlines in a bank are turned off

32. 16 bit Row Adress

33. If an individual capacitor holds a 1, and is charged to 1 volt

34. What detects change of voltage on bitline

35. The sense amplifier does what to voltage of .5V+ on the bitline?

36. If a 0V is stored in a capacitor,

37. 10 Bit column address is used by Column Multiplexer to connect the corresponding bitlines to the Read Driver, which sends 8 Voltages over the IO Data wires to the CPU

38. Writing Data is completely different from reading

39. In writing process, 8 bits to be written are sent to the chip

40. In writing and reading, bank gets selected and capacitors become isolated, and bitlines are precharged to .5V

41. Sense Amplifiers change voltage to 1 or 0 Volts, thus “opening” up the row.

42. The multiplexer connects 8 bitlines to Write Driver, which

43. Write Drivers are stronger than Sense Amplifier

44. Writing and Reading DO NOT happen concurrently with all 4 chips in the shared memory channel

45. Newer DDR versions have a smaller Charge for binary 1 and also a smaller Precharge voltage number

46. What’s the amount of time it takes to refresh 65,546 rows

47. DRAM requests per second

48. Open Row process

49. With Row Hit/Page hit

50. 128 bit wires connect into Burst Buffers

51. Inside the Sense Amplifier, you will find a Cross-Coupled Inverter