Semiconductor Engineering

Setting The Memory Controller Free From Managing DRAM Maintenance Ops (ETH Zurich)

A new technical paper titled “A Case for Self-Managing DRAM Chips: Improving Performance, Efficiency, Reliability, and Security via Autonomous in-DRAM Maintenance Operations” was published by ...
Business Insider

Microchip Enters Memory Infrastructure Market with Serial Memory Controller for High-performance Data Center Computing

CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- As the computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads accelerate, traditional parallel attached DRAM memory has ...
EDN

ARM Introduces LPDDR2 Memory Controller to Accelerate Chip Performance and Improve Energy Saving

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Oct. 7, 2008 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] today announced the ARM PrimeCell low-power DDR2 (LPDDR2) dynamic memory controller (PL342), which provides a high-performance interface ...
SDxCentral

US lawmakers want memory added to chip controls

U.S. lawmakers called for memory to be added to chip controls, days after a bill was passed to further limit Chinese access ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DRAM Simulator For Evaluation of Memory System Design Changes (ETH Zurich)

A technical paper titled “Ramulator 2.0: A Modern, Modular, and Extensible DRAM Simulator” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “We present Ramulator 2.0, a highly modular and extensible DRAM ...
The Next Platform

Accelerating Compute By Cramming It Into DRAM Memory

Perhaps the biggest task that processor and system designers have to wrestle with these days is how to keep heavily cored and massively threaded processors fed with data. Modern CPUs have anywhere ...
Electronic Design

A Summary Of The DDR Memory Controller Standard—Wait, There Isn’t One!

The number of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that require an interface to off-chip memory is increasing. As a result, more and more designers are turning to double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM interfaces such as ...
Ars Technica

There’s a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses

In 2015, researchers reported a surprising discovery that stoked industry-wide security concerns—an attack called RowHammer that could corrupt, modify, or steal sensitive data when a simple user-level ...