Memory in the fast lane

  • Authors:
  • Betty Prince

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The author describes how the demand for higher-bandwidth memories in systems from multiprocessing to multimedia has designers pulling out all the stops. Topics discussed include: cache hierarchy; rapider RAM; wider data; application specific DRAMs; synchronous memories; and SRAM caches