Memories

• How do we store a memory?

  • Positive feedback
  • Electronic charge
    • Capacitor: Volatile
    • Floating gate: Nonvolatile
  • Magnetic flux
    • Disk surface
    • Ferroelectrics
    • Core
  • Wire connections

• Key point: Memory is analog

  • We decode analog quantities to bits

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