Re: e379 Final

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:11:48 -0700


Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:11:48 -0700
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: e379 Final

> Does anyone have the answers to the last exercise in the > Lecture 9 notes ? The questions deal with RAM and ROM > applications. If someone could just quickly type out the > answers and send them out, that would be great. power-on boot code: ROM, EPROM or flash (non-volatile) main memory: DRAM (r/w, cheap) cache: SRAM (r/w, fast) boot program in prototype: EPROM or flash (non-volatile, reprogrammable) video: RAM (r/w): video RAM if fast, SRAM if medium, DRAM if slow calculator: battery backed RAM (non-volatile, r/w) font card: ROM (non-volatile, cheap) modem firmware: flash (reprogrammable) mileage reading: EEPROM (non-volative, small re-writeable ) video cartridge: ROM (non-volatile cheap) -- Ed Casas edc@ece.ubc.ca http://casas.ece.ubc.ca +1 604 822-2592