DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics (IEEE Press Series on Microelectronic Systems)

I had spent a lot of time looking for a good DRAM book on the web as well as the IEEE library since my understanding on the topic was very fragmented until I found this book. Quite frankly, this is probably the only book you will ever need for understanding the internals of the DRAM device (besides reading the relevant JEDEC specs of course). The book covered a lot of topics (layout issues, PLLs, sense amp, synchronization, etc.) with a lot of details, allowing me to finally get a global view of how DRAMs are designed and work.I don't have time for a detailed recommendation now, but I strongly recommend this book and promise I will come back and write a more detailed review for this book. I feel like I owe the author this much.

I found it very good at explaining the circuitry, but it is dated. Most of the fundamentals are relevant but what has changed since then are:- open bit-line has become the norm (the book favors folded bit-line, but explains both)- the structure of the capacitor has become a major blocking problem, and the book was written just as the current form was taking shape- there is no discussion of CMOS-under design, which is becoming the normSo in summary this is a really competent book and clearly written, but you will need to find other sources to close the changes over the last 8 years or so. I do not know of any more recent book, so 4 stars.

I'm one of the Co-authors of the book "Memory Systems:Cache, DRAM, Disk". I wrote the section on DRAM memory systems. So my understanding of DRAM devices is from the systems perspective - i.e. as a user of DRAM devices.When I was searching for literature to aid in my understanding of DRAM devices, and writing the aforementioned text, I relied on Keeth and Baker's previous effort, the book titled "DRAM Circuit Design: A Tutorial". That book was enormously helpful in providing the basis reference for my understanding of basic DRAM circuits and microarchitecture. With that understanding in place, I was then able to absorb the significance of current academic papers being presented at technical conferences. In that sense, the book "DRAM Circuit Design: A Tutorial" literally functioned as a Rosetta Stone for me.This current book, "DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics" has not only carried on that tradition of being the relevant, current and definitive reference, but it extends the scope of coverage to lower latency devices such as RLDRAM, and higher bandwidth devices such as GDDR3.It is therefore my opinion that this is one of the best book purchases that I have made in my professional career, and I highly recommend to anyone interested in the understanding of DRAM device operations to purchase this book.