Re: Address range of the RAM system in Q.1?

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:19:28 -0800 

Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:19:28 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Address range of the RAM system in Q.1?



On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:40:31AM -0800, Kelvin Ng wrote:

> For question 1, what is the address range of the RAM?  The CPU
> uses 24 bit address bus, which can address 16MB of memory, but
> in the question, there are only 384KB.  Should we assume the
> memory system responds to addresses from 000000 to 05FFFF ?

Oops.  The assignment doesn't say where the memory should be
located in the CPU's address space.  So I guess any sort of
mapping would be OK as long as it mapped 384k into at least one
contiguous region in memory.

And yes, a reasonable choice would be to place the memory from 0
to 384k.

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