Spring 2007 Lecture notes for EE 5/418
Memory Circuit Design
http://coeneval.boisestate.edu/
please do the course evaluation at this link.
Final projects emailed to me before 8 am on Monday May 14
May 2 – no lecture
April 30 – lec25_ee5418.pdf
and lec25_video
– answer final project questions
April 25 – lec24_ee5418.pdf
and lec24_video
– Dr. Feng Lin, guest lecturer, phase tolerant latency control for GDDR3/4
April 23 – lec23_ee5418.pdf
and lec23_video
– course review, talk about final projects
April 18 – lec22_ee5418.pdf
and lec22_video
– PLL design example, discussions
April 16 – lec21_ee5418.pdf
and lec21_video
– continue VCO discussion, analog DLLs
April 11 – lec20_ee5418.pdf
and lec20_video
– discuss projects, begin VCO discussion
April 9 – lec19_ee5418.pdf
and lec19_video
– overview of distortionless transmission, the Hogge PD
April 4 – lec18_ee5418.pdf
and lec18_video
– PLLs using the PFD, charge pumps and tri-state outputs
April 2 – lec17_ee5418.pdf
and lec17_video
– introduction to PLLs, the XOR phase detector PLL for clock recovery
March 26 and 28 – spring break from instruction
March 21 – lec16_ee5418.pdf
and lec16_video
– discuss projects, DLL design and concerns
March 19 – midterm exam, closed
book and notes
March 14 – lec15_ee5418.pdf
and lec15_video
– review for the exam
March 12 – lec14_ee5418.pdf
and lec14_video
– intro to delay-locked loops, discussion of phase detectors
March 7 – lec13_ee5418.pdf and lec13_video – input buffers, skew, peak detectors and timing
March 5 – lec12_ee5418.pdf
and lec12_video
– review of basic DRAM operation, intro to SDRAM and DDR
February 28 – lec11_ee5418.pdf and lec11_video – charge pumps
February 26 – lec10_ee5418.pdf and lec10_video – more project discussions, writing and sensing
February 21 – lec9_ee5418.pdf
and lec9_video
– SPICE examples and discussions for the projects
February 14 – lec8_ee5418.pdf
and lec8_video
– discussions on writing resistive memory, program/verify
February 7 – lec7_ee5418.pdf
and lec7_video
– start sensing with delta-sigma modulation
February 5 – lec6_ee5418.pdf
and lec6_video
– finish discussing flash, start on chalcogenide memory
January 31 – lec5_ee5418.pdf and lec5_video – SRAM and floating gate memory cells (flash)
January 29 – lec4_ee5418.pdf and lec4_video – 1k DRAM discussion, decoders, sense amp design
January 24 – lec3_ee5418.pdf and lec3_video – more sensing, DRAM cell size, architectures, decoding
January 22 – lec2_ee5418.pdf and lec2_video – Array architectures, DRAM cell, sensing basics
January 17 – lec1_ee5418.pdf and lec1_video – course introduction, review of basic digital design