{"id":89,"date":"2010-03-28T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:42:26","slug":"my-dear-sram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"my dear SRAM &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; i want you back. really. i&#8217;ve lived too long with my DRAM, though very fast too, but it&#8217;s the latency that makes me wait a lot longer than necessary. even if you want to minimize the tracelines on the PCB and still use standard chipset timings\/layouts &#8211; fine &#8211; use the CAS \/ RAS access schemes, but get rid of the latency and precharges and all that!<\/p>\n<p>with structures of .25 microns now you can fit a lot of sram cells on a die and still have a decent pricepoint. think of flash &#8211; you&#8217;ll get 8GB for $30 on sale, that needs about 6 times the area, and even more if it&#8217;s multilevel, but still, you could get a GB of SRAM for the same price. and that&#8217;ll fit all the programs you usually need (kernels, drivers) and some of the userdata as well<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d rather have some SRAM in my system than SSD &#8211; the loading times don&#8217;t bug me as much as wasted performance while i&#8217;m running an app! and even 12MB cache in the latest CPU isn&#8217;t doing it for me. i want my SRAM back!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; i want you back. really. i&#8217;ve lived too long with my DRAM, though very fast too, but it&#8217;s the latency that makes me wait a lot longer than necessary. even if you want to minimize the tracelines on the PCB and still use standard chipset timings\/layouts &#8211; fine &#8211; use the CAS \/ RAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}