Address decoding

- NAND decoders is the simplest decoding technique

- The number of address lines needed are dictated by the address lines of the memory device
being used
- The CPU has a total of 20 address lines, if the memory device only needs 15 address lines,
therefore the CPU has an excess of five address lines
- NAND decoders uses the excess address lines of the CPU
- NAND decoders are used because it is assumed that the chip enable is active LOW, logic 0 to
activate, hence, the output of the NAND is 0 when all inputs are 1
- To calculate for address lines, use the formula below:
o Log of 32768* / Log 2 = 15
o *32768 is the total memory size, if the total memory size is 32KB multiply 32 x 1024
and you’ll get 32768