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Course Information:
| Lecture: | Tue Thu 11:00 - 12:30, EGR-1108 |
| Mailing List: | mailto:enee759h-0101-spr05@coursemail.umd.edu |
| Required Texts: | Jacob, Wang, Ng: Caches, Memories, Disks (book in progress, draft copies of selected chapters are available from Engineering Copy Center) |
| 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, Associate 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 |
| Office: | 1418 A.V. Williams Building |
| Phone: | (301) 405-2068 |
| Email: | davewang@wam.umd.edu |
| Office Hours: | ??? |
Course Handouts and General Information:
Lectures:
| Date | Lecture Slides | Topics | Notices | References |
| Jan 27 | Lecture1 | Overview: Intro to DRAM Devices and Systems | ||
| Feb 1 | Lecture2 | DRAM Circuits and Architecture I |
Chapter 1 and 2 of Keeth & Baker: DRAM Circuit Design Chapter 11 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. DRAM Device Fundamentals |
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| Feb 3 | Lecture2 | DRAM Circuits and Architecture II |
Chapter 1 and 2 of Keeth & Baker: DRAM Circuit Design Chapter 11 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. DRAM Device Fundamentals Toshiba 0.65um embedded DRAM paper from IEDM 2003 |
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| Feb 8 | Lecture3 | DRAM Memory System Organization | Chapter 12 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. Memory System Organization | |
| Feb 10 | Lecture4 | System Controller | Chapter 14 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. Memory System Organization (not yet ready) | |
| Feb 15 | Lecture5 | Sim-DRAM Memory System Simulation Framework | Ms Brinda Ganesh presents | Mase DRAM Simulation Manual |
| Feb 17 |
Lecture6 Lecture6 Correction | DRAM Access Protocol I | Chapter 13 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. DRAM Access Protocol | |
| Feb 22 | Lecture6 and Lecture7 | DRAM Access Protocol II and SDRAM/DDR SDRAM/DDR2 SDRAM | Chapter 13 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. DRAM Access Protocol | |
| Feb 24 | Snowed out | |||
| Mar 1 | Lecture7 | SDRAM/DDR SDRAM/DDR2 SDRAM continued | ||
| Mar 3 | Lecture9 | Memory Controller Basics and Workload Characteristics | Memory Controller References | |
| Mar 8 | Lecture10 | Performance Analysis 1: Request Access Distance | ||
| Mar 10 | Lecture10 | Performance Analysis II: Results | ||
| Mar 15 | Lecture11 | High performance, Power-aware DDR3 SDRAM Scheduling Algorithm | ||
| Mar 17 | Lecture12 | DRAM Reliability | Chapter 16 of Jacob, Wang, Ng. Memory System Reliability | |
| Mar 29 | Lecture13 | Signalling: Wires part I | ||
| Mar 31 | Lecture13 | Signalling: Wires part II | ||
| Apr 5 | Lecture13 | Signalling: Synchronization | ||
| Apr 7 | Lecture8 | Direct RDRAM | ||
| Apr 12 | Lecture14 | XDR Memory System | ||
| Apr 14 | Lecture15 | FB-DIMM Architecture | FB-DIMM Datasheet from Micron | |
| Apr 19 | Lecture15 | FB-DIMM Architecture continued | ||
| Apr 21 | Lecture16 | NVRAM, MRAM, FeRAM etc. | ||
| Apr 26 | Lecture16 | NVRAM, MRAM, FeRAM etc. | ||
| Apr 28 | Lecture17 | RLDRAM, FCRAM, eDRAM, etc. | Embedded DRAM: Technology Platform for the BlueGene/L Chip NEC eDRAM to appear in Xbox2 |
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| May 3 | Lecture 18 | Timing Conventions | ||
| May 5 |
Lecture 19 Wrap-up talk | Calculating Power & High-Level Perspective |
Micron's DesignLine article from which the Power presentation was shamefully stolen |
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