EDN

Fast DDR4 SDRAM to enable the new space age

To exploit lucrative market opportunities, satellite operators are trying to differentiate by offering added-value services like ultra-high-resolution imagery, live streaming video, and on-board AI to ...
EDN

Designing DDR3 SDRAM controllers with today’s FPGAs

The recently introduced DDR3 SDRAM technology paves the way to higher data rates (from 800 Mbps to 1600 Mbps) and provides higher performance for many systems that depend on data, video, or packet ...
Design-Reuse

The Love/Hate Relationship with DDR SDRAM Controllers

Almost everyone knows that the bulk of DRAMs produced end up in desktop and laptop computers just like the one used to write this article. In fact, approximately 90% of all DRAMs produced are used in ...
Hackaday

SDRAM Logic Analyzer Uses An AVR And A Dirty Trick

We often see “logic analyzer” projects which are little more than microcontrollers reading data as fast as they can, sending it to a PC, and then plotting the results. Depending on how fast the ...
Design-Reuse

DDR SDRAM Controller IP Designed for Reuse

This paper deals with reusability issues in the development of a double data rate (DDR) SDRAM controller module for FPGA-based systems. The development of integrated systems-on-a-chip (SoC) is based ...
Hackaday

SDRAM Controller For Low-end FPGAs

There are very few ‘recent’ FPGAs out there that can be easily soldered. Due to their important number of IOs, they usually come in Ball Grid Array (BGA) packages. The Xilinx Spartan 6 LX9, a TQFP144 ...