SESSION WP 24
SALON 8, Wed, 9
1:30 PM

DRAM

Chair: T-S. Jung, Samsung Electronics, Yongin-City,
Kyungki-Do, Korea
Associate Chair: D. Stark, Rambus, Inc., Mountain View, CA


24.1 An 8ns Random Cycle Embedded RAM Macro with Dual-Port Interleaved DRAM Architecture (D 2RAM)
1:30 PM
Y. Agata, K. Motomochi, Y Kagenishi, Y. Fukushima, M. Shirahama, M. Kurumada, N. Kuroda, H. Sadakata, K. Hayashi, T. Yamada,
K. Takahashi, T. Fujita
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Nagaokakyo, Japan

An embedded RAM macro with dual-port interleaved DRAM (D 2RAM) has 8ns random cycle with open bit lines, time domain shielded bit line, and 2-stage pipeline.

24.2 A 56.8GB/s 0.18 um Embedded DRAM Macro with Dual Port Sense Amplifier for 3D Graphics Controller
2:00 PM
A. Yamazaki, T. Fujino, K. Inoue, I. Hayashi, H. Noda, N. Watanabe, F. Morishita, J. Ootani, M. Kobayashi 1, K. Dosaka, Y. Morooka,
H. Shimano, S. Soeda, A. Hachisuka, Y. Okumura, K. Arimoto,
S. Wake, H. Ozaki
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Itami Hyogo, Japan
1Daioh Electric Corp., Itami, Hyogo, Japan

A 23.3mm 2 32Mb embedded DRAM macro uses 0.18 um triple-well 4-metal embedded DRAM technology to realize 3D graphics with 32b true color. Row access is 11.6ns at 2.0V with 2-cycle column latency at 222MHz.

24.3 1GHz Fully-Pipelined 3.7ns Address Access Time 8kx1024 Embedded DRAM Macro 2:30 PM
O. Takahashi, S. Dong, M. Ohkubo 1, S. Onishi 1, R. Dennard 2,
R. Hannon 3, S. Crowder 3, S. Iyer 3, M. Wordeman 3, B. Davari 3
IBM Austin Research Lab, Austin, TX
1IBM Japan Yasu Tech. Applic. Lab, Shiga, Japan
2IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
3IBM Microelectronics, East Fishkill, NY

A 19.4mm 2 embedded DRAM macro runs at 1GHz at 85 oC, -10% VDD, and nominal process. It uses a 0.18 um L drawn logic-based DRAM technology, copper lines, 3-well, two oxide thicknesses, and trench capacitors.

BREAK 3:00 PM

24.4 A 16MB Cache DRAM LSI with Internal 35.8GB/s Memory Bandwidth for Simultaneous
Read-Write Operation 3:15 PM
M. Nakayama, H. Sakakibara, M. Kusunoki, K. Kurita, Y. Yokoyama, S. Miyaoka, J-i. Koike, N. Tamba, T. Kobayashi, M. Kume 1,
H. Sawamoto 1, A. Kawata 1, H. Tanaka 1, Y. Takada 1, M. Yamamoto 1,
M. Yagyu 2, Y. Tsuchiya 3, H. Yoshida 3, N. Kitamura 3, K. Yamaguchi 3
Hitachi, Ltd., Device Development Ctr. / 1Enterprise Server Div. / 2 Central Research Lab, Tokyo, Japan
3Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

A 16MB cache DRAM has internal 35.8GB/s memory bandwidth and 9.0ns DRAM random access and is realized using a 0.2 um merged logic DRAM process.

24.5 New Architecture for Cost-Efficient
High-Performance Multiple-Bank RDRAM 3:45 PM
H. Mukai, T. Nagai, S. Takase, S. Imai, H. Maejima, M. Ito,
T. Yamamoto, H. Waki, K. Sakurai, T. Hara, M. Koyanagi, K. Nakagawa
Microelectronics Engineering Lab, Toshiba Corp., Yokohama, Japan

A 288Mb RDRAM uses 0.175 um CMOS to achieve interleaved operation of 2x16 split dependent banks with 2GB/s data rate. It features dual page size of 1KB and 2KB, and shared data transmission system among all banks to improve area efficiency.

24.6 A 0.18 um 256Mb DDR-SDRAM with Low-Cost
Post-Mold-Tuning Method for DLL Replica 4:15 PM
S. Kuge, T. Kato, K. Furutani, S. Kikuda, K. Mitsui, T. Hamamoto,
J. Setogawa, K. Hamade, Y. Komiya, S. Kawasaki, T. Kono, T. Amano, T. Kubo, M. Haraguchi, Z. Kawaguchi, Y. Nakaoka 1, M. Akiyama 2,
Y. Konishi, H. Ozaki
Mitsubishi Electric Corp, ULSI Devel. Ctr., Itami, Hyogo, Japan
1Daioh Electric, Itami, Hyogo, Japan
2Mitsubishi Electric Engineering, Itami, Hyogo, Japan

A 200MHz DDR-SDRAM has a wide-range DLL. Post-mold-tuning allows precise replica tuning after mold. Data bus achieves 400Mb/s/pin transfer.

24.7 A 500Mb/s Quadruple-Data-Rate SDRAM Interface using a Skew Cancellation Technique 4:45 PM
J. Kim, S-H. Wang, J. Lee, H-S. Nam, Y-G. Kim, J-H. Shim, H. Ahn, S. Kang, K-N. Park 1, B-H. Jeong 1, J-H. Ahn 1, B. Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea
1Hyundai MicroElectronics Co. Ltd, Cheongju, Korea

A quadruple data rate (QDR) SDRAM I/O interface uses salient skew cancellation. Cancellation reduces skews between data lines on PCB to 250ps.

24.8 Antifuse EPROM Circuit for
Field-Programmable DRAM 5:00 PM
J-S. Choi, J-K. Wee, P-J. Kim, J-K. Oh, C-H. Lee, H-Y. Cho,
J-Y. Chung, S-C. Kim, W. Yang 1
Hyundai Electronics Industries, Inchon, Korea
1Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

An antifuse EPROM with 3V programming is incorporated into a 64Mb SDRAM. The EPROM enables post-packaging field-programmable DRAM features.

CONCLUSION 5:15 PM