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UMC Produces First 45nm SRAM
News Taiwanese supplier UMC says it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometre SRAM chips for the first time. These 45nm SRAM processors will supercede today's 65-nm chips. They will allow manufacturers to shrink the size of each SRAM cell...
[November 20, 2006, 23:00]
A Novel High Density, Low Voltage SRAM Cell With A Vertical NDR Device
White Papers The new SRAM cell uses a thin vertical PNPN structure with gate-assisted turn-off and turn-on mechanisms. An SRAM based on this new cell is comparable in cell area, standby current, architecture, speed, and fabrication process to a DRAM of the same...
[November 30, 2003, 23:00]
CapStore - World's First Non-Volatile SRAM With Integrated Capacitor Replaces Battery-Backed SRAMs
White Papers The CapStore nvSRAM from ZMD is the most advanced non-volatile SRAM available today. The integrated capacitor provides the energy for the parallel data transmission from the SRAM into the shadow EEPROM at power-down.
[September 19, 2004, 0:00]
Micron Withdraws From The SRAM Market
News The memory maker on Thursday said it would stop producing its synchronous SRAM products, which are used mainly in communications gear. SRAM is typically used to store frequently accessed data in a cache close to the processor that will be handling it.
[April 10, 2003, 14:49]
TSMC Shrinks Memory To 0.13 Microns
News TSMC) says it has successfully made SRAM memory chips using an advanced 0.13-micron manufacturing process at its Fab 12. One customer has already taped out -- or finalised -- a 0.13-micron SRAM product, the company said.
[October 24, 2001, 17:10]
Integration Of High-Performance Transistors, High-Density SRAMs, And 10-Level Copper Interconnects Into A 90 Nm CMOS Technology
White Papers This paper presents a 40 nm-gate-length transistor, an ultra-high-density 6T SRAM cell, 10-level Cu interconnects, and Very-Low-K (VLK) dielectrics for high-performance microprocessor applications. The key process features are 193 nm lithography...
[February 29, 2008, 23:00]
Magnetic Memory Set To Charge The Market
News While DRAM and SRAM use well-known techniques with silicon, MRAM adds much extra complexity with very precise application of new materials, while still needing the same basic silicon circuitry for interfacing and control.
[February 12, 2003, 8:16]
Intel Shrinks Chips To 90 Nanometres
News The experimental SRAM (static RAM) chips measure approximately 109 square millimetres and contain up to 52 million bits of data, making them the densest SRAM chips ever produced, according to the company.
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
IBM Set To Boost Chip Memory
News Starting with its 45nm (nanometre) processors next year, IBM will use embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM) instead of SRAM (static RAM) on its processors, effectively tripling the amount of memory it can put on those chips.
[February 14, 2007, 8:06]
Using NvSRAMs In RAID Controller Applications
White Papers The SIMTEK family of nonvolatile SRAM products is ideally suited to RAID applications. They run at processor speeds with no wait-states, reliably store data in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory without batteries, and look like a standard SRAM to...
[October 5, 2004, 0:00]
Optimization Of Silicon Technology For The IBM System Z9
White Papers These technology improvements included logic and SRAM FET optimization, mask fabrication, lithography and wafer processing, and interconnect technology. Reliability improvements such as SRAM optimization and burn-in reliability screen are also...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
Moore's Law On Course For Another Two Years
News The test chips, produced this month, are static 153 Mb SRAM chips. The chips contain over a billion transistors and are nearly the same size as test 18 Mb SRAM chips produced by Intel in 2000 on the then-new 130nm process.
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Intel Sharpens Its Memory
News But SRAM (static RAM) cells currently used to make cache memory are not as dense as Intel would like, with six transistors needed to build a cell and store one bit of information. But one technology that fits the bill — embedded DRAM (dynamic RAM...
[December 12, 2006, 7:40]
Carbon Nanotubes Rise Up Food Chain
News Nantero's memory is faster than static random access memory (SRAM), an embedded form of memory used for caches on processors, Schmergel said. LSI will use Nantero's memory as an SRAM replacement, as will the unnamed licensee.
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Intel Looks At Leap In Handheld Memory
News SRAM, DRAM and flash Intel is specifically looking for technology that will combine higher density with the fast read/write speeds of synchronous RAM, the lower cost of dynamic RAM and the non-volatility of flash memory, which can store data when...
[July 12, 2001, 9:40]
TI Strides Towards 65 Nanometres
News The Dallas company on Monday said it has created static random access memory (SRAM) based on its forthcoming 65-nanometre manufacturing process. Intel also has produced SRAM chips with a 65-nanometre process and plans to come out with chips using...
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
65 Nm Technology For High Performance And Low Power
White Papers This webinar details on the 65nm logic process technology, including transistor features, interconnect features, and SRAM cell. This webinar features the latest information on the 65nm manufacturing ramp, including the status of CPU prototypes, the...
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Selecting The Right High-Speed Memory Technology For Your System
White Papers DDR2 SDRAM, RLDRAM II and QDRII SRAM represent the latest generation of high-speed memories available to engineers each device has different strengths and weaknesses and designers need to understand these traits to balance performance with...
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
Dynamic Memory Allocation Optimizes Integration Of Blackfin Processor Software
White Papers For applications that require the most determinism, it can access on-chip SRAM in a single core clock cycle. Typical DSPs usually have a small amount of fast on-chip memory. Microcontrollers usually have access to larger external memories.
[September 23, 2004, 0:00]
High-Speed, Low-Power Embedded Dynamic Random Access Memory
White Papers One of the main objectives is to design a unified framework for DRAM and SRAM memories. Methods are described to harness the space saving virtues of dynamic random access memory for use in embedded application-specific integrated circuit environments.
[September 20, 2004, 0:00]
