Memory Design Features

A middle-1X nm NAND flash memory cell (M1X-NAND) with highly manufacturable integration technologies

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Extended scalability of perpendicular STT-MRAM towards sub-20-nm MTJ node

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Unveiling the next generation of wireless apps with FRAM-based MCUs

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PCM Progress Report No. 7: A view of Samsung's 8-Gb array

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Design calculations for robust I2C communications

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Memory subsystem validation through real-time compliance test and logic analysis

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Pick the right storage solution for each part of the cloud

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2D vs. 2.5D vs. 3D ICs 101

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Compliance and conformance: testing to new IEEE standards

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Pick the right SSD drive for the application

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RDIMMs maximize server performance, reliability, and scalability

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Building a NAND flash controller with high-level synthesis

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FPGAs unleash potential of Flash memory for enterprise applications

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Resistive RAM for next-generation nonvolatile memory

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Choosing the right synchronous SRAM for your application

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Technical Papers

Improved Memory Throughput Using Serial NOR Flash

e-MMC vs. NAND with Built-in ECC

Embedded System Performance Trade Offs

Optimizing Memory Bandwidth in Complex SoCs

RoCE vs. iWARP Competitive Analysis Brief

Courses and Webinars

Embedded Memory Test and Repair Solution: Keeping Up with Changing Design Applications and Shrinking Process Technologies

Considerations for Implementing an Embedded Memory Subsystem in Graphic Applications

Solving Isolation Challenges in Power Conversion Applications

Selecting the Best Non-Volatile Memory IP for RFID Applications

System Management for High Availability Systems

Audio IP Subsystems Made Easy with a Complete, SoC-Ready Solution

Bringing Embedded MTP NVM IP to Advanced Process Nodes

Why your next Medical Device should use Virtualization and be Multicore

RedHawk-3DX: Dynamic Power Sign-Off

SIMPLE SWITCHER® Nano Modules and Regulators + TI Processors

Teardowns

Video: Tear down that Prius!

Winbond’s innovative DRAM design and the legacy of Qimonda

Inside Xbox 360's Kinect controller

CE parts met cockpit avionics in vintage F-15 video camera

Innovation at home: Inside a 3-D desktop scanner

BenQ K60 e-reader: Trying to stand on the shoulders of giants

First look inside iPhone 4 reveals high reuse

Analysis gives first look inside Apple's A4 processor

Teardown: Inside the art of pulse oximetry

Blackberry Storm has some good qualities, and some not so good

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

Cadence releases IP to support NVMe standard

RAPIDO in-line programmer delivers gang programming of up to 16 sites

TDK develops mSATA SSD for industrial applications

Micron announces DDR4 DRAM module

Soft errors can cause headaches at smaller geometries

Embedded TLC flash controller targets smart phones, tablets

New memory packaging IP packs multi-gigabit capacity in a small form factor

High-sigma Monte Carlo meta-simulator for memory design

IDT introduces temperature sensor for SSDs

Western Digital unveils 7-mm hard drive

Commentary

Something smells

Carolyn Mathas

Is this cool, or what? As you know, sensors are increasingly taking over our five senses in an ever-growing number of applications.

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Reversal from the foundry model back to IDM ?

Zvi Or-Bach

One can't avoid the question: Are we facing a dramatic reversal of the trend from the Foundry model back to the IDM model?

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I don't think you will see a lot of companies building their own fabs now. The costs are too great ...

Industry view: iSuppli on Micron/Elpida deal

Kristin Lewotsky

Mike Howard of IHS iSuppli weighs in on rational markets, Micron's most likely integration strategy, and the one thing Elpida must not do.

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My, how the mighty has fallen. Back in 80s, Japanese DRAM businesses drove most US memory makers ...

Elpida buy to remake DRAM landscape

Kristin Lewotsky

Micron reportedly wins the rights to negotiate for Elpida even as it begins sampling its first DDR4 DRAM module.

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The debt/loss cycle for DRAM mfgs is well known and has always been an issue. In the market where ...

Micron looks like the winner of Elpida sweepstakes

Dylan McGrath

It now seems likely that Micron Technology will win the bidding for Elpida Memory. Is that a good thing?

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Maybe Micron's thinking is this: if they don't acquire scale by buying Elpida, they have 100% chance ...

Tablet demand fuels NAND flash growth

Kristin Lewotsky

NAND flash expected to boost semiconductor growth but will excess inventory kill the rally?

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Recent Comments

Bert22306  05.16.2012
IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012
I suppose this will partially depend on whether other tablets, like the Kindle Fire, and the ...
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PJames  05.16.2012
Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors
Perhaps a little startup known as PLA ;)
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any1  05.16.2012
Altis foundry updates 130-nm specialty design kits
Not every design needs to be on the leading edge. There is still money to be made at 130 nm if you ...
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Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

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Autonomous vehicles - Be Afraid

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Why China?

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Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors

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Goodbye, hardwired switches and circuits: we'll miss you (maybe)

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