Application specific DRAMs Today

Abstract

DRAMs have historically been high volume, standard, commodity memories. Today with many high volume applications having differing requirements, DRAMs are becoming more application specific. This talk discusses a variety of application specific DRAMs including those with high speed interfaces such as the DDR and DDRII SDRAM and those with speed enhancing internal architectures; DRAMs with low power internal design techniques for use in battery operated systems; DRAMs with graphics enhancements such as high speed point-to-point interfaces and various internal graphics functions; DRAMs for networking such as ternary CAMs, SRAM look-alike DRAMs with pseudo-static operation for both high performance networking and battery operated asynchronous and synchronous applications; and low voltage power supply DRAMs.