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To be useful, memory cells must be readable and writable. Within the RAM device, multiplexing and demultiplexing circuitry is used to select memory cells. Typically, a RAM device has a set of address lines <math>A_0, A_1,...A_n</math>, and for each combination of bits that may be applied to these lines, a set of memory cells are activated. Due to this addressing, RAM devices virtually always have a memory capacity that is a power of two.
Usually several memory cells share the same address. For example, a 4 bit
Often more addresses are needed than can be provided by a device. In that case, external multiplexors to the device are used to activate the correct device that is being accessed. RAM is often byte addressable, although it is also possible to make RAM that is word-addressable.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGPHAl9GE-IC&dq=size+of+a+memory+address&pg=PA321 | isbn=978-0-7637-3769-6 | title=The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture | date=2006 | publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vQCEAAAQBAJ | title=Foundations of Computer Technology | isbn=978-1-000-15371-2 | last1=Anderson | first1=Alexander John | date=25 October 2020 | publisher=CRC Press }}</ref>
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