Course Information:

Lecture:	Tue Thu 12:30 - 1:45, AVW-2120
Mailing List:	mailto:enee759h-0101-spr03@coursemail.umd.edu
Recommended Texts:	Dally & Poulton: Digital Systems Engineering Johnson & Graham: High-Speed Digital Design Keeth & Baker: DRAM Circuit Design Hall, Hall & McCall: High-Speed Digital System Design Prince: High Performance Memories

Instructor Information:

Instructor #1:	Bruce L. Jacob, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Office:	1325 A.V. Williams Building
Phone:	(301) 405-0432
Email:	blj@eng.umd.edu
Office Hours:	Open-door policy, for now ...

Instructor #2:	David T. Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Office:	1418 A.V. Williams Building
Phone:	(301) 405-2068
Email:	davewang@wam.umd.edu
Office Hours:	???

Schedule for Project Presentations:

Tuesday, May 13:	Justin, Tom, Jason Amol, Sumod, Gunjan Harini, Deepika, Iswari	Extra processing power in memory controller 3D DRAM system Access reordering
Thursday, May 15:	Patrick, Babak, Nazanin Lei, Brinda, Aamer Sumit, Hameed	Serial link DRAM system Page-based DRAM commands Memory configuration for prefetching

Course Handouts and General Information:

• Course Syllabus

• Intel 845GE/845PE Chipset Data Sheet
• Micron 64 Mb FPM datasheet
  
• Micron 64 Mb EDO datasheet
  
• Micron 256 Mb RLDRAM datasheet
  
• Micron SDRAM 256 Mb datasheet
  
• Micron DDR SDRAM 256 Mb datasheet
  
• Elpida: How to use SDRAM - User's Manual
  
• Elpida: SDRAM Application Notes
  
• Elpida: How to use DDR SDRAM - User's Manual
  
• Intel E7500 Chipset Single Device Data Correction Implementation
  
• Dell Enterprise Group: Chipkill technology in Dell Poweredge server
  
• IBM chipkill memory
  
• Rambus Signaling technology Overview
  
• 32 bit RIMM module with 256 Mbit RDRAM devices
  
• DDR Platform Conference Presentation
  
• DDR II prelimnary presentation: JEDEC
  
• Rambus Clock Generator
  
• Alpha EV6 21272 chipset
  
• AMD EV6 chipset Design
  
• Micron RLDRAM datasheet
  
• Compaq memory reliability whitepaper
  
• Rambus 256/288 Mbit double bank datasheet
  
• Rambus 256/288 Mbit split bank datasheet
  
• Rambus 32/64 bit module specification
  
• Poulton ISSCC 1999 Signaling Tutorial
  
• Rambus module propagation delay computations
  
• Mosis Presentation at Denali Memcon in San Jose
  
• Reinhartdt/Burger Paper on Rambus and address mapping policy.
  
• AMD presentation on Hammer. Hotchips 2002.
  

• "A performance comparison of contemporary DRAM architectures." Vinodh Cuppu, Bruce Jacob, Brian Davis, and Trevor Mudge. In Proc. 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'99), pp. 222-233. Atlanta GA, May 1999.
• "Concurrency, latency, or system overhead: Which has the largest impact on uniprocessor DRAM-system performance?" Vinodh Cuppu and Bruce Jacob. In Proc. 28th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'01), pp. 62-71. Goteborg Sweden, June 2001.
• "PC processor microarchitecture." Keith Diefendorff. Microprocessor Report, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 16-22, July 12 2000.
• "The slammin, jammin, DRAM scramble." Brian Dipert. EDN, pp. 68-82, January 2000.
• "The energy efficieny of IRAM structures." R. Fromm, S. Perissakis, N. Cardwell, C. Kozyrakis, B. McGaughy, D. Patterson, T. Anderson, and K. Yelick. In Proc. 24th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'97), pp. 327-337, June 1997.

Weekly Lectures:

Week	Lecture Slides	Topics	Notices	References
Feb. 3	Lec 1	Overview Part I: Intro to DRAMs and DRAM systems		Elpida: How to use SDRAM - User's Manual Elpida: SDRAM Application Notes
	Lec 2	DRAM Circuits and Architecture		Chapter 1 and 2 of Keeth & Baker: DRAM Circuit Design
Feb. 10	Lec 3	DRAM Memory System Organization		Micron SDRAM 256 Mb datasheet DDR Platform Conference Presentation
	Lec 4	System Controller Basics		Alpha EV6 21272 chipset Datasheet Presentation by AMD on AMD Opteron Processor, Hotchips 2002. AMD Athlon EV6 chipset Design Intel 845GE/845PE Chipset Data Sheet
Feb 17		Memory System Design for Snow Removal Equipment
	Lec 5	SDRAM and DDR SDRAM Memory Systems		Micron SDRAM 256 Mb datasheet DDR Platform Conference Presentation Elpida: How to use SDRAM - User's Manual Elpida: SDRAM Application Notes
Feb 24.	projects	Overview Part II: Past, Present, Future, and Project Discussions	Feb. 25: AVW-3258	Supplementary Project Information
	Lec 6	Direct RDRAM Memory System		Rambus Signaling Technology Overview 32 Bit RIMM description 256 Mbit double bank Rambus DRAM chip datasheet 256 Mbit split bank Rambus DRAM chip datasheet
Mar. 3	Lec 7	Signaling basics		Poulton ISSCC 1999 Signaling Tutorial
	Lec 8	Wires and PCB Boards		Poulton ISSCC 1999 Signaling Tutorial Rambus module propagation delay computations Rambus Signaling technology Overview 32 bit RIMM module with 256 Mbit RDRAM devices Chapter 1, 2, 3, "High-Speed Digital System Design" Chapter 1, 2: "Digital System Engineering" Chapter 1, 2, "High-Speed Digital Design"
Mar. 10	Lec 9	Wires part 2 and Signalling		Poulton ISSCC 1999 Signaling Tutorial
	Simplescalar	Simplescalar-mase Tutorial		Mase DRAM simulator manual Download sample code and workload (UMD access only)
Mar. 17	Lec 10	Clocking and Synchronization		Poulton ISSCC 1999 Signaling Tutorial Using the Virtex Delay-Locked Loop Chapter 9: "Digital System Engineering"
	Demo 1	Latency Measurement with software and Logic Analyzer	Mar. 20: Lab Demo AVW1450	Mase DRAM simulator manual
Mar. 24		Spring Break
Mar. 31	Lec 11	DRAM Evolution: ESDRAM etc.
	Lec 12	DDR II		Hynix DDR II datasheet Samsung DDR II datasheet JEDEC DDR II Evolution presentation
Apr. 7	Lec 13	DRAM Reliability: Parity, ECC, Chipkill, Scrubbing.		IBM's paper on Chipkill memory Dell's paper on PowerEdge Chipkill memory implementation MOSIS MemCon Presentation UCF Spring2002 Computer Architecture Classnotes Rambus Chipkill Implementation Intel E7500 Chipset Chipkill Architecture Compaq Advanced Memory Protection Strategy
Apr. 14		Review
	Lec 14	Alternative memories: Flash		A New Charge Pump without Degradation in Threshold Voltage due to body effect Shin, Chung, Park, Min, IEEE Hournal of Solid State Circuits, Vol 35 No. 8. Aug 2000 AMD 1.8 V Flash Memory Technology Intel Flash Technology Overview Intel 1.8V StrataFlash Memory datasheet Intel 130nm Logic + Flash Integration Propaganda Samsung 512 Mbit 1.8V NAND Flash datasheet
Apr. 21	Lec 15	Various DRAM parts for Embedded System		Microprocessor Report article on Yellowstone Technology Enhanced Memory Systems Inc. 72 Mbit DDR ESDRAM datasheet Toshiba FCRAM datasheet Micron RLDRAM datasheet Rambus Developer Forum Presentation Slides
	Lec 16	Intel 875P Chipset Features		Intel 875P chipset datasheet ASUS P4C800 Systemboard Manual Micron DDR400 addendum Serial ATA specification
Apr. 28	Lec 17	Alternative memories II: MRAM and FeRAM		Non Volatile Memory Technologies: A look into the future. Intel Presentation A Low Power 1 Mbit MRAM based on 1T1MTJ Cell Integrated with Copper Interconnects Applications and Issues for Ferroelectric NVMs. STMicroelectronics presentation
	Lec 18	Caclulating Power in (Micron) DDR SDRAMs	May 1: Room Change: AVW 4185	Micron's DesignLine article from which this presentation was shamefully stolen
May 5	Lec 19	Two Timing Conventions	May 8: Room Change: AVW 3258
May 12		Project Presentations