Semiconductor Memories

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Semiconductor Memories

• Lecture 2 May 20, 2006
• EE Summer Camp
• Abhinav Agarwal

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Outline

• Recap
• SDRAM
• Latency associated with memory
• Memory organization in Computers
• Cache and their role
• Low power optimizations
• Leakage protection
• Error correction using redundancy
• Trends and areas of research

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Recap

• Memory Chip Configuration Array based
• Classification
• volatile DRAM, SRAM,CAM
• Non-volatile FuseROM, EPROM(UV), EEPROM(Flash)