Setting Up Interleaved RAM on a Bus

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This discussion centers on the implementation of interleaved RAM on a bus, where one RAM chip handles the lower nibble and another chip manages the upper nibble of a data value at the same address. The user questions whether this configuration accurately represents the concept of interleaving. The term "interleaving" is traditionally associated with distributing data across multiple memory banks to enhance performance, which may not fully apply in this specific setup.

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I've set up RAM on a bus such that one chip takes the lower nibble and another chip takes the upper nibble of a particular data value at a specific address. Both chips are given the same address, but each one contains only half of the data. I want to call this interleaving, but I'm not sure if this term is entirely accurate. Is this interleaving?
 
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