Week 9

Chapters (Computer organization and design fundamentals):

• 12 Memory Organization
  • 12.1 Early Memory
  • 12.2 Organization of Memory Device
  • 12.3 Interfacing Memory to a Processor
    • 12.3.1 Buses
    • 12.3.2 Memory Maps
    • 12.3.3 Address Decoding
    • 12.3.4 Chip Select Hardware
  • 12.4 Memory Mapped Input/Output
  • 12.5 Memory Terminology
    • 12.5.1 Random Access Memory
    • 12.5.2 Read Only Memory
    • 12.5.3 Static RAM versus Dynamic RAM
    • 12.5.4 Types of DRAM and Their Timing
    • 12.5.5 Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Memory

Videos:

• Introduction to the Memory Hierarchy
• Organization of a Simple Memory Device
• Introduction to Chip Selects in a Flat Memory Model
• Designing an Active-Low Chip Select from a Memory Map
• Extending Chip Select Theory to Other Computing Resources
• Memory Hierarchy Addressing Modes and SRAM versus DRAM Technology

• Core Dumped: Storing Data using Transistors