ALSO CALLED: Content Addressable Storage, Content Addressing Storage, and Content Addressed Storage DEFINITION: Column address strobe is a signal sent to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that tells it that an associated address is a column address. A data bit in DRAM is stored in a cell located by the intersection of a column address and a row address. A RAS (row address
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CAS DEFINITION (continued): … Column address strobe is a signal sent to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that tells it that an associated address is a column address. A data bit in DRAM is stored in a cell located by the intersection of a column address and a row address. A RAS (row address strobe) signal is used to validate the row address.
CAS also stands for content-addressed storage and channel associated signaling. CAS definition sponsored by SearchStorage.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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