Write-only memory may refer to: Write-only memory (joke), a jocular term for a useless device Write-only memory (engineering), memory that cannot be read...

In information technology, a write-only memory (WOM) is a memory location or register that can be written to but not read. In addition to its literal...

Write-only memory (WOM), the opposite of read-only memory (ROM), began as a humorous reference to a memory device that could be written to but not read...

or E2PROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) is a type of non-volatile memory. It is used in computers, usually integrated in microcontrollers...

programs and data being actively processed, computer memory serves as a mass storage cache and write buffer to improve both reading and writing performance...

which read and write data consecutively and therefore the data can only be accessed in the same sequence it was written. Semiconductor memory also has much...

magnetic-core memory is a form of random-access memory. It predominated for roughly 20 years between 1955 and 1975, and is often just called core memory, or, informally...

static RAM. A key disadvantage of flash memory is that it can endure only a relatively small number of write cycles in a specific block. NOR flash is...

by the memory circuitry and is transparent to the user. While a refresh cycle is occurring the memory is not available for normal read and write operations...

metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology. While most DRAM memory cell designs use a capacitor and transistor, some only use two transistors. In the designs where a...

In computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions...

the memory, in contrast with other direct-access data storage media (such as hard disks and magnetic tape), where the time required to read and write data...

nonvolatile memory. FeRAM's advantages over Flash include: lower power usage, faster write speeds and a much greater maximum read/write endurance (about...

in physical memory, the MMU will cause an interrupt to the operating system. The OS will then select a lesser-used block in memory, write it to backing...

with recirculation times measured in microseconds. To read or write a particular memory address, it is necessary to wait for the signal representing its...

an integrated memory controller (IMC). Memory controllers contain the logic necessary to read and write to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and to...

currently in production. Some allow up to 100,000 write/erase cycles, depending on the exact type of memory chip used, and are thought to physically last...

of 2019, with small-write latency. As the memory is inherently fast, and byte-addressable, techniques such as read-modify-write and caching used to enhance...

addresses evenly across memory banks. That way, contiguous memory reads and writes use each memory bank in turn, resulting in higher memory throughput due to...

capacitor memory. Though not suited for use as a directly-accessible computer memory, Flash memory has developed into a widely used form of read-write mass...

a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations. Buffers are areas of memory set aside to...

up to 6.67 MB/s. One of the slowest bus cycles is a simple memory read or write, where only 2 of the 17 clock cycles (plus any wait states imposed by the...

specified area of memory, write accesses, or attempts to execute the contents of the area. An attempt to access unauthorized memory results in a hardware...

of computer memory and indicates whether the corresponding block of memory has been modified. The dirty bit is set when the processor writes to (modifies)...

information stored by the compiler. Memory debuggers can directly point out questionable or outright wrong memory accesses of running programs which may...

which may change the contents of one or more memory cells or interfere with the circuitry used to read or write to them. Hence, the error rates increase rapidly...

additional writes, known as write amplification, which must be managed to balance performance and durability. Most SSDs use non-volatile NAND flash memory for...

read-only memory known as core rope memory, fashioned by weaving wires through and around magnetic cores, though a small amount of read/write core memory is...

individual selection of 65536 data items, and the operations of read or write of those items are designed to span multiple consecutive data items up to...

ever-increasing memory sizes on modern computers would lead to I/O becoming write-heavy because reads would be almost always satisfied from memory cache. A log-structured...