Semiconductor Engineering

Where Do Memory Maps Come From?

A memory map is the bridge between a system-on-chip (SoC) and the firmware and software that is executed on it. Engineers may assume the map automatically appears, but the reality is much more ...
EDN

Self-Repair Boosts Memory SoC Yields

Vincent Ratford, vice president of marketing and business development at Virage Logic (Fremont, Calif.), knows about providing design solutions for IC companies. Earlier, he was director of marketing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Primer On Last-Level Cache Memory For SoC Designs

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...
EDN

Addressing interleaved multichannel memory challenges

Achieving the total external-memory-bandwidth requirements of consumer SOCs (systems on chips) at acceptable costs gets more difficult with each generation of electronic systems and the DRAM ...