In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Computers are now essential to our daily lives, found both at work and at home. But what exactly makes them tick? And what will the computer of the future look like? A computer is a machine that ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...