Section 5.10: Connecting RAM to the CPU (Frame 1)                     [     ][home][next]

Every memory has three sets of wires connected to it:

data wires the wires containing the actual data value read or written
address wires the wires containing the address in binary of the desired word; this is the input to the address decoder, and causes one of the word-select wires to have 1 on it
control wires the wires that select read or write and whether or not this memory is to respond to the read or write wire