2. INTERNAL MEMORY ALSO CALLED AS MAIN OR
PRIMARY MEMORY REFERS TO MEMORY THAT
STORES SMALL AMOUNTS OF DATA THAT CAN BE
ACCESSED QUICKY WHILE THE COMPUTER IS
RUNNING .
THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO KINDS OF INTERNAL
MEMORY:-
RAM(RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY)
ROM(READ ONLY MEMORY)
INTRODUCTION
4. RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
RAM IS A FORM OF COMPUTER MOEMORY THAT
CAN BE READ AND CHANGED IN ANY ORDER ,
TYPEICALLY USED TO STORE WORKING DATA
AND MACHINE CODE.
IN TODEYS TECHNOLOGY RANDOM ACCESS
MEMORY TAKES THE FORM OF INTEGERATED
CIRCUIT (I.C)CHIPS WITH MOS (METAL OXIDE
SEMICONDUCTOR)MEMORY CELLS
5. THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF RAM:-
DYNAMIC RANSOM ACCESS MAMORY
ATATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
TYPES OF RAM
6.
7. READ ONLY MEMORY
READ INLY MEMORY IS A TYPE ELECTRONIC
STORAGE THAT COMES BUILT TO A DEVICE
MANUFACTURING. YOU’LL FIND ROM CHIP IN
COMPUTERS AND MANY OTHER TYPES OF
ELECTRONIC DEVICES ;VCR,GAME
CONSOLES,AND CAR RADIOS ALL USE ROM TO
COMPLETE THEIR FUNCTIONS SMOOTHLY . ROM
CHIPS COME BUILT INTO AN EXTERNAL UNIT –
LIKE FLASH DRIVES AND OTHER AUXILARY
MEMORY DEVICES –OR INSTALLED INTO THE
DEVIDES HARDWARE ON A REMOVAL CHIP.
8. TYPES OF ROM:-
ROM IS FURTHE CLASSIFIED INTO 4 TYPES:-
MROM(MASK READ ONLY MEMORY)
PROM(PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY)
EPROM(ERASABLE PROGRAMABLE ROM)
EEROM (ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE ROM )