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 ...
Design-Reuse

The Love/Hate Relationship with DDR SDRAM Controllers

Almost everyone knows that the bulk of DRAMs produced end up in desktop and laptop computers just like the one used to write this article. In fact, approximately 90% of all DRAMs produced are used in ...
EDN

SDRAM interface slashes pin count

Many designs need deep buffering but don't require ultrahigh-memory bandwidth. Examples include image and audio processing, as well as some deep-FIFO applications. These designs often use a single ×8 ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

DDR SDRAM Controller IP Designed for Reuse

This paper deals with reusability issues in the development of a double data rate (DDR) SDRAM controller module for FPGA-based systems. The development of integrated systems-on-a-chip (SoC) is based ...
Hackaday

SDRAM Controller For Low-end FPGAs

There are very few ‘recent’ FPGAs out there that can be easily soldered. Due to their important number of IOs, they usually come in Ball Grid Array (BGA) packages. The Xilinx Spartan 6 LX9, a TQFP144 ...