EDN

Designing DDR3 SDRAM controllers with today’s FPGAs

The recently introduced DDR3 SDRAM technology paves the way to higher data rates (from 800 Mbps to 1600 Mbps) and provides higher performance for many systems that depend on data, video, or packet ...

24-bit Z80 (5) The Mystery of Memory

Chasing the "value is wrong only immediately after reset" issue—24-bit Z80 memory transfer and the pitfalls of the same ...
TweakTown

JEDEC publishes DDR5 SDRAM standard update: speeds, features, timings

JEDEC announced the publication of the DDR5 SDRAM standard update which included new features to enhance reliability and performance across a wide range of applications, in systems and ...
Hackaday

SDRAM Logic Analyzer Uses An AVR And A Dirty Trick

We often see “logic analyzer” projects which are little more than microcontrollers reading data as fast as they can, sending it to a PC, and then plotting the results. Depending on how fast the ...
TechSpot

JEDEC releases next-gen DDR5 memory specification

Something to look forward to: As CPU core counts continue their upward trend, there's been a pressing need to improve DRAM bandwidth as well. DDR5 SDRAM will quadruple capacity per die and double the ...
EDN

Alliance Memory Expands Low-Power SDRAM Portfolio

Alliance Memory announced that its SDRAM portfolio now features a wide variety of components that combine low power consumption with power-saving features to extend battery life in mobile devices.
Engineering

White Paper: DDR SDRAM – Design Advantages and Signal Integrity Challenges

Memory is what makes electronic products what they are. Thanks to the high-speed, high-bandwidth, double-data rate (DDR) memory in modern processors, our smartphones, servers, computers and gaming ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LPDDR5X Opening New Markets For Low-Power DRAMs

Low-power DDR SDRAM has been one of the most widely used memories in the semiconductor market. This blog post talks about the evolutions of LPDDR DRAMs leading to the latest published standard of ...
AZOM

Using Plasma FIB-SEM to Prepare a TEM Specimen from a 66 nm SDRAM Sample

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is one of the fundamental units used in most of the electronic devices including smartphones, laptops, personal computers, and so on. Transistors and capacitors are ...
Electronic Design

Functional Testing and Validation for DDR4 and LPDDR4

Representing the most recent generation of double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, DDR4 and low-power LPDDR4 together provide improvements in speed, density, and power over DDR3. However, such speed and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DDR Memory Test Challenges From DDR3 to DDR5

Cloud, networking, enterprise, high-performance computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are propelling the development of double data rate (DDR) memory chip technology. Demand for lower power ...
GlobalSpec

DRAM Modules Information

DRAM modules are collections of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips assembled on circuit boards. DRAM chips are single-transistor dynamic memory cells that use capacitors to store each bit in a ...