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

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 ...
Design-Reuse

A Platform for Performance Validation of Memory Controllers

With growing gap between processor and memory speeds, the memory bandwidth has become performance bottleneck for media applications. The memory controller designs are getting optimized to reduce the ...
Electronic Design

Leverage High-Frequency Source-Synchronous Memory in SoC Design

Download this article in PDF format. Today’s embedded systems require high external memory bandwidth to achieve fast boot time and application loading time with minimal cost. Historically, ...