Labels:book | chat room | crt screen | hakham | monitor | sky OCR: SECTION CHAPTER 2 How does RAM work? In RAM, microscopic electronic parts called capacitors hold the bits that represent data You can visualize the capaci- tors as microscopic lights that can be turned on or off charged capacitor iS "turned on and represents 1 bit A discharged capacitor is "turned off and represents "0' bit. Each bank of capacitors holds eight bits -one byte of data A RAM addr ress on each bank helps the computer locate data, as needed for processing (Figure 2- -17 FIGURE 2-17 Address: M1 The two charged capaci Each RAM location has an 00000 tors represent a! this the RAM letter address address and uses eight capaci tors to hold the eight bits that Address: M2 A different sequence represent byte 0000 charged capacitors represents the lette Address: M3 Another sequence of 0 ...
