Electronic Design

Overcome Traditional Memory-Speed Barriers With Embedded DRAM

For applications where performance is of primary importance, designers have traditionally chosen SRAM technology over DRAM. Although commodity DRAM offers much higher density and a lower cost per bit, ...
EDN

Caching In On High Speed DRAM

Elpida Memory, Inc announced that has developed two new high-speed DRAM technologies designed to boost the performance of servers, network routers, PCs and other IT infrastructure components. Elpida ...
Semiconductor Engineering

PF-DRAM: A Precharge-Free DRAM Structure

“Although DRAM capacity and bandwidth have increased sharply by the advances in technology and standards, its latency and energy per access have remained almost constant in recent generations. The ...
EDN

Drive the REF Pin of Current-Sense Amps

This application note discusses the REF pin functionality in the indirect current-feedback architecture for instrumentation amplifiers. This article compares the importance of a REF buffer in a ...