EDN

Packet-buffer memory bandwidth causes NPU performance bottlenecks

Spiraling network line rates, presently hitting up to 10 Gbit/second, are approaching the performance limits of the packet buffers in today's datacom line cards. For its part, buffer-memory ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Memory Buffer Chips: Satisfying Amdahl’s Law To Sustain Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law, the observation that the available transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years, has driven the semiconductor and IT industries to unparalleled growth over the last 50+ ...
Electronic Design

Buffer Memory Nodes Come In XMC Form Factor

The MM-6171, a buffer memory node, comes in an XMC form factor with support for Serial RapidIO or PCI Express and supports 2 GB to 4 GB of buffer memory. It suits radar-signal processing, signal ...
EDN

Isolation memory buffer raises capacity and speed in DDR3 systems

The iMB01-GS02 isolation memory buffer is a single chip that reduces the load on the memory controller by buffering both data and address lanes. By isolating the CPU from the memory components and ...
PC Magazine

buffer overflow

A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data copied into a memory buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the extra data will overwrite whatever is in the adjacent bytes, and those ...