Semiconductor Memories and Systems

Provides a key introduction to the semiconductor memory market led by experts from the top company working in the area

Andrea Redaelli (Edited by), Fabio Pellizzer (Edited by)

9780128207581, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 9 June 2022

362 pages, Approx. 150 illustrations (150 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 1 kg

Semiconductor Memories and Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of semiconductor memory at the technology and system levels. After an introduction on market trends and memory applications, the book focuses on mainstream technologies, illustrating their current status, challenges and opportunities, with special attention paid to scalability paths. Technologies discussed include static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), non-volatile memory (NVM), and NAND flash memory. Embedded memory and requirements and system level needs for storage class memory are also addressed. Each chapter covers physical operating mechanisms, fabrication technologies, and the main challenges to scalability.Finally, the work reviews the emerging trends for storage class memory, mainly focusing on the advantages and opportunities of phase change based memory technologies.

1. Historical review of semiconductor memories
2. The usage of Memory in current systems
3. SRAM technology status and perspectives
4. DRAM circuit and process technology
5. NAND Flash technology status and perspectives
6. Embedded memory solutions: charge storagge based, resistive and magnetic
7. The evolving role of storage-class memory in servers and large systems
8. 3DXpoint fundamentals
9. Other Emerging Memories
10. Computing with nonvolatile memories for artificial intelligence

Subject Areas: Electronic devices & materials [TJFD], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR], Materials science [TGM]