Design-Reuse

Unleashing the Power of Embedded DRAM

Embedded DRAM technology offers many advantages in System On Chip products. Computing applications demand memory with low latency and zero soft error rate. Graphics ...
Ars Technica

Rambus launches XDR2 DRAM with microthreading

Today Rambus launched XDR2, which is the successor to the existing XDR a.k.a. “Yellowstone” DRAM interface technology that’s being used in the PS3. XDR2 DRAM is essentially an evolutionary step over ...
Design-Reuse

Micro-threaded Row and Column Operations in a DRAM Core

The technique of micro-threading may be applied to the core of a DRAM to reduce the row and column access granularity. This results in a significant performance benefit for those applications that ...
EDN

Speed with flexible design critical to embedded DRAM for SoCs

Steven Tomashot, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Microelectronics Division, Essex Junction, Vermont, Subramanian S. Iyer, Manager, System Scale Integration, IBM Microelectronics Division, Hopewell ...
VentureBeat

IBM’s DRAM inventor Bob Dennard gets chip industry’s highest honor

If you’re using anything electronic, from a smartphone to a laptop, you’re using Robert Dennard‘s fundamental invention: the single-cell dynamic random access memory chip. While working for IBM back ...
EDN

Under the Hood: New DRAM chip gets due notice

Over the years, there have not been many drastic changes to the structure of DRAM devices. There have been a few tweaks here and there to account for smaller process geometries and to optimize design, ...