SEGGER standard for units of Memory size
This article describes the units used by SEGGER for sizes and speeds, in manuals and on the web.
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Speed units
- Always metric: Powers of 10
- kB/s = 1000 bytes per second
- MB/s = 1'000'000 bytes per second
Size units
- Typically binary: Powers of 2
- Rarely metric: Powers of 10
- KB = 1024 bytes
- MiB = 1'048'576 bytes
- kB = 1000 bytes
- MB = 1'000'000 bytes