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In second case, several memory words are organized in one row. In this case, address bus is divided into two gropus.

One group is used to form the row address and the second group is used to form the column address. Consider the memory organization of 1024 x 1 memory chip. The required 10-bit address is divided into two groups of 5 bits each to form the row and column address of the cell array. A row address selects a row of 32 cells, all of which are accessed in parallel. However, according to the column address, only one of these cells is connected to the external data line via the input output multiplexers. The arrangement for row address and column address decoders is shown in the figure 3.8.

 

Figure 3.8: Organizaion of 1k x 1 Memory chip
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