High Performance Memories

Traditional Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAMs) no longer have adequate bandwidth and access time to keep up with the speed of current microprocessors. In order to increase speed and efficiency many work station and mainframe manufacturers are starting to use high performance memories. This book features coverage of advances in high performance RAM technology. It has been updated to incorporate extra material including the new DDR DRAMs, CiDDR DRAMs, SL=DRAM, the Direct Rambus, SSTL interfaces, and the 16M SGRAM.

Author Biography

Betty Prince has over 30 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry having worked with Texas Instruments, N.V. Philips, Motorola, R.C.A., and Fairchild and is currently CEO of Memory Strategies International. She has authored four books and served from 1991-1994 on the Technical Advisory Board of IEEE Spectrum magazine. She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and served as an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer and on the Program Committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit conference. She was founder of the JEDEC JC-16 Interface Standards Committee and was active for many years on the JC-42 Memory Committee where she was co-chair of the SRAM standards group. She has been U.S. representative to the IEC SC47A WG3 Memory Standards Committee. Dr Prince has served on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies and has been on the Board of Directors of Mosaid Technologies. She holds patents in the memory, processor and interface areas and has degrees in Physics, Math, and Finance with doctoral dissertation in fractal modeling.