Study Lab for Chapter 7

Use the “Key Terms and Definitions” section of the lab to review terms used in this chapter. Try the “Practice Test” to check your comprehension of the chapter. Tackle the “Lab Exercises” to apply your knowledge.

Key Terms and Definitions

bank

Amount of memory that must be added to be recognized by the system.

CAS Latency

How quickly (in cycles) a memory module can switch to a new memory address.

COAST (Cache On A STick)

A removable cache module.

continuity module

Empty Rambus module that must be plugged into a Rambus RDRAM module socket not occupied by a memory module.

DDR SDRAM (Double-Data-Rate SDRAM)

Performs two memory accesses per clock cycle for double the throughput.

DDR266, DDR333, DDR400

Standard speeds (in MHz) for ...

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