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How your memory controller could be a hidden bottleneck in your PC

If you’re an enthusiast trying to get the most performance out of your RAM kit, you might find yourself spending hours tuning for higher frequencies or tighter timings. What you may find, on some ...
EDN

Building a better memory controller: architectural performance exploration of an AXI memory controller

Communicationbetween processors and memories is often a major bottleneck, making the designof the memory controller a critical task in determining overall system-levelperformance. The memory ...
EDN

DDR3 memory interface controller IP speeds data processing applications

DDR3 memory systems can provide a significant performance boost to a variety of data processing applications. However, compared to previous generations (DDR and DDR2), DDR3 memory devices have some ...
Design-Reuse

A Performance Architecture Exploration and Analysis Platform for Memory Sub-systems

The memory-subsystem includes a memory device such as DRAM, memory controller and physical/IO layer (PHY). There are several parameters that affect the performance of the memory subsystem, including ...
Design-Reuse

Smart way to memory controller verification: Synopsys Memory VIP

Today verification team are facing contradicting pressure, at one end they are asked to reduce the verification schedule while at other end the design complexity is increasing. To overcome the ...