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RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability)

ALSO CALLED: Reliability (Systems), RAS, Reliability, Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Availability
DEFINITION: In computer memory technology, RAS (row address strobe) is a signal sent to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that tells it that an associated address is a row address. A data bit in DRAM is stored in a cell located by the intersection of a column address and a row address.  … 
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RAS (RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, SERVICEABILITY) DEFINITION (continued): … In computer memory technology, RAS (row address strobe) is a signal sent to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that tells it that an associated address is a row address. A data bit in DRAM is stored in a cell located by the intersection of a column address and a row address. A column address strobe (CAS) signal is used to validate the column address.

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