CHAPTER 8

DRAM Device Organization: Basic Circuits and Architecture

In this chapter, basic circuits and architecture of DRAM devices are described. Modern DRAM devices exist as the result of more than three decades of devolutionary development, and it is impossible to provide a complete overview as well as an in-depth coverage of circuits and architecture of various DRAM devices in a single chapter. The limited goal in this chapter is to provide a broad overview of circuits and functional blocks commonly found in modern DRAM devices, and then proceed in subsequent chapters to describe larger memory systems consisting of DRAM devices composed of the commonly found circuits and functional blocks described herein.

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