Like peanut butter and jelly, like salt and pepper, like that seemingly perfect couple you love (to hate), the two dominant types of computer memory truly complete one another. Read-only memory (ROM) ...

Random Access Memory (RAM) stores programs and data that is used by the CPU in real-time. The data can be read, written, and erased any number of times. RAM is a volatile memory, a hardware element ...

The term memory applies to any electronic component capable of temporarily storing data. This article will explain the different categories of memory, the technical characteristics of memory, and the ...

As the name implies, Read Only Memory (ROM) cannot be written to. The contents of the memory are decided during the design process and data is programmed during the manufacturing process. As such, ROM ...

Josh Hihath is trying to fuse biology and electrical engineering and to build new types of electronic memory based on DNA. Hihath, professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer ...

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t feasible. [Igor Brichkov] shows us how to ...

Magnetic Core memory was the RAM at the heart of many computer systems through the 1970s, and is undergoing something of a resurgence today since it is easiest form of memory for an enterprising ...

In the early days of computing, the difference between RAM and ROM was very clear. Random access memory (RAM) was designed to hold data while the computer was turned on and to lose it when the power ...