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Offline Zac67

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Re: How do I figure out RAM chips. WORD x BIT to Kilobyte?
« on: January 22, 2013, 07:34:31 AM »
Or in other words: to populate a bus of 16 bits with chips 4 bits wide (x4) you require 4 chips in parallel. 4x 256K x4 = 256K x16. In terms of bytes: 256K x16 = 512K x8.
 

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Re: How do I figure out RAM chips. WORD x BIT to Kilobyte?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 07:39:20 PM »
Used to have a bunch of 512Kx4 but gave them away here a couple of years ago. I'll take a look if there are any 1Mx4 around...