EDN

Fast DDR4 SDRAM to enable the new space age

To exploit lucrative market opportunities, satellite operators are trying to differentiate by offering added-value services like ultra-high-resolution imagery, live streaming video, and on-board AI to ...
Design-Reuse

The Love/Hate Relationship with DDR SDRAM Controllers

Almost everyone knows that the bulk of DRAMs produced end up in desktop and laptop computers just like the one used to write this article. In fact, approximately 90% of all DRAMs produced are used in ...
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 ...
Business Wire

JEDEC Publishes Update to DDR5 SDRAM Standard Used in High-Performance Computing Applications

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in standards development for the microelectronics industry, today announced publication of the JESD79-5A ...
Design-Reuse

Which DDR SDRAM Memory to Use and When

Memory performance is a critical component for achieving the desired system performance in a wide range of applications from cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to automotive and mobile.
Yahoo Finance

Alliance Memory Partners With Micron Semiconductor to Extend 512M SDRAM Product Life Cycle

SAN CARLOS, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 20, 2014) - Alliance Memory today announced it has partnered with Micron Semiconductor to supply and extend availability of support for three 512M synchronous DRAM ...
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 ...
ExtremeTech

Micron's 320GB/sec Hybrid Memory Cube comes to market in 2013, threatens to finally kill DDR SDRAM

The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium, which consists of such silicon luminaries as Micron, Samsung, and IBM (but not Intel), has finally finished hammering out the Hybrid Memory Cube 1.0 standard. The ...
Electronic Design

The Vanishing Data Valid Window

There are many parameters, both electrical and physical, that contribute to the relative size of tDV and not all scale with operating speed. Factors such as signal noise, crosstalk, skew, jitter, and ...

Micron is making a fortune from the memory crisis

Micron generated a good 13.6 billion US dollars in revenue from September to the end of November. This is the second ...
Electronic Design

Eye-Diagram Analysis Speeds DDR SDRAM Validation

Double-data-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) physical-layer testing is a crucial step in making sure devices comply with the JEDEC specification. The ultimate goal is to ...