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To: John Walliker who wrote (71537)	5/2/2001 7:34:08 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

John, Every storage location in a memory is a register. Most of them are used for storing "ordinary" data. One of them is used for storing the memory chip output delay value. If there are 2^n addresses plus one address for the delay register there is a total of 2^n + 1 storage locations. This requires n+1 address lines to access them if multiplexing is not used. If n or fewer address lines are present (which is the case for SDRAM) then the memory uses a multiplexed bus. Do you think saving one wire is worth 2% royalties? Do you think that the DRAM manufacturers would have chosen to add the extra wire, had they known about Rambus extortion plans? Scumbria