Section 5.12
Review Questions
Memory cycles

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1. How many memory operations can take place during one memory cycle?

2. What does the following notation mean?

3. Why does the following line, showing a transition of the MA wire from logic 0 to logic 1, have a slant in it? What does this mean?

4. Is the following memory operation a read or a write?

5. Show an example of a line being strobed.

6. In the following diagram of the read operation, circle the time point (a, b, c, d or e) when the data is safely stored in the MBR.

7. When computer architects design a memory, what governs their decision of how long to make a memory cycle?