One of the problems with being engaged in our hobby or profession is that people assume if you can build a computer out of chips, you must know all the details of their latest laptop computer ...

The Avalon Multi-port SDRAM Memory Controller IP Core is designed for maximizing the performance of an Altera Nios II processor in Avalon® multi-master streaming data systems. Advanced design features ...

Over the past 25 years we have seen the transition from SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) to DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM, and then to DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4 on a cadence of five year cycles. Currently we ...

An increasing number of SoC designs are requiring an interface to some form of external memory. The modern DDR2 SDRAM offers security of supply, high storage capacity, low cost, and reasonable channel ...