

Fujitsu's Ferroelectric RAM hits 2 MBit





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RE: Bit?
By masher2 (blog) on 4/18/2007 2:02:08 PM , Rating: 2
> " i thought bits were technically meant to be used for measuring dataflow (bitrate) rather than capacity"

No, they're all units of capacity. Bits, nibbles (4 bits), bytes (8 bits), and words (16 bits).

Divide any of those by a time unit, and you have a rate. Serial data (which travels 1 bit at a time) is usually speced in bits/sec, but bytes or anything else is equally valid.

RE: Bit?
By Dactyl on 4/18/2007 3:53:23 PM , Rating: 2
Words can be any number of bits
If you're coding for a 32-bit system, word size will often be 32 bits

RE: Bit?
By UltimateDeath on 4/18/2007 5:07:10 PM , Rating: 2
I guess i stand corrected :p, though i'm sure omseone must've made up nibbles for a joke...

RE: Bit?


Longword or Double is 32 bits
Quadword is 64 bits
Octaword is 128 bits

RE: Bit?
Trivia: it's more properly spelt "nybble" .

Used to use it more back in the olden days although
not really that much even then (I've been designing
HW systems with microprocessors in them since the
early 70's).

