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 ...
TweakTown

SK hynix shows off 16Gb LPDDR6 at 14.4Gbps, while Samsung sends LPDDR6X samples to Qualcomm

TL;DR: SK hynix will unveil its 16Gbit LPDDR6 SDRAM design at ISSCC 2026, featuring 14.4Gbps speeds and advanced 10nm-class ...
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 ...
Embedded

Emerging RAM Technologies

New memory technologies force us to challenge past design assumptions. Read this introduction to FRAM, DDR SDRAM, and RDRAM before starting your next project. Configuration data goes into EEPROM; ...
TweakTown

JEDEC publishes DDR5 SDRAM standard update: speeds, features, timings

JEDEC announced the publication of the DDR5 SDRAM standard update which included new features to enhance reliability and performance across a wide range of applications, in systems and ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LPDDR5X Opening New Markets For Low-Power DRAMs

Low-power DDR SDRAM has been one of the most widely used memories in the semiconductor market. This blog post talks about the evolutions of LPDDR DRAMs leading to the latest published standard of ...
Electronic Design

Functional Testing and Validation for DDR4 and LPDDR4

Representing the most recent generation of double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, DDR4 and low-power LPDDR4 together provide improvements in speed, density, and power over DDR3. However, such speed and ...
Electronic Design

DDR Memories Require Efficient Power Management

Now gaining popularity in desktop and portable computers is a new type of memory: Double Data Rate (DDR) memory that meets JEDEC Standard JESD79 and JESD8-9 [1]. The DDR-SDRAM is simple, clocked at ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DDR Memory Test Challenges From DDR3 to DDR5

Cloud, networking, enterprise, high-performance computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are propelling the development of double data rate (DDR) memory chip technology. Demand for lower power ...