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- From: jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jon Mellott)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Cached DRAM from Mitsubishi
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.003907.10654@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 00:39:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.214908.7876@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1992Jul29.224223.22285@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul29.224223.22285@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, noah@cs.washington.edu (Rick Noah Zucker) writes:
- |> In article <1992Jul29.214908.7876@trantor.harris-atd.com> dwilliam@jabba.ess.harris.com (David Williams) writes:
- |> > I was flipping through the May issue of Electronic Design, and an
- |> >ad from Mitsubishi caught my eye. They have a DRAM chip now available
- |> >with built-in cache. This looks interesting - a 1M by 4 DRAM with a
- |> >built-in 4K by 4 SRAM cache. Apparently, the chip has an internal bus
- |> >that lets the SRAM cache do a line copy to/from the DRAM portion at
- |> >64 bits. (16 x 4bit internal bus) Speed is claimed to be 10ns when a
- |> >cache hit occurs, 70ns in case of a miss (actually, a miss causes a
- |> >280ns DRAM cycle, but the SRAM can start doing stuff again in 70ns while
- |> >the DRAM is busy)
- |>
- |> This is a little unclear, and if you have more detailed
- |> information, please clarify my point. You say that 70 ns after a cache
- |> miss, the SRAM can start doing stuff, but the DRAM is busy for another
- |> 210 ns. Does this mean that you will get your data in 70 ns, but the
- |> DRAM is busy for another 210 ns because it has to write back the data you
- |> just read out? Or does it mean that you can initiate another request in
- |> 70 ns? That is, you can make another request to the chip, which will be
- |> satisfied if it is in the cache.
-
- The vital statistics (for the -10 suffix devices) are:
- 1) Cache Hit Access/Cycle = 10ns/10ns
- 2) Cache Miss Access/Cycle = 70ns/280ns *
- 3) Direct Array Access/Cycle = 70ns/140ns
-
- *: "Cache hit cycles can resume after one miss access time, while the copy-back
- completes in the background."
-
- Other interesting facts: This memory is synchronous (has a clock pin) and
- offers a power down mode via stopping the clock. In power down mode the
- part consumes 1 mW. Also, as you might have guessed, the 100 MHz hit cycle
- time is a wee bit fast for a multiplexed row/column addressing scheme:
- the device is packaged in a 44 pin TSOP type II package (obviously the
- address lines are not multiplexed). The device is also available in a
- reverse pin-out TSOP (to simplify layout of double sided memory
- cards and SIMMs). The device is also available in -15 and -20 suffixes.
-
- Hope this clarifies things.
-
- Jon Mellott
- High Speed Digital Architecture Laboratory
- University of Florida
- (jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu)
-