Memory-a new era of fast dynamic RAMs [for video applications]

  • Authors:
  • F. Jones;B. Prince;R. Norwood;J. Hartigan;W. C. Vogley;C. A. Hart;D. Bondurant

  • Affiliations:
  • United Memories Inc., Colorado Springs, CO;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Innovative circuit designs intended to bring inexpensive dynamic memories up to speed are discussed. The features of video DRAMs, the high-data-rate application that spurred the development of application-specific DRAMs that utilize wide on-chip buses, are described. Several new chips use the wide data buses within DRAMs to advantage; on most of them 1024 to 4096 memory locations may be accessed in parallel. Examples are cache DRAMs, enhanced DRAMs, synchronous DRAMs, and Rambus DRAMs, all described in this report