Miron Veryanskiy and Kyle Dillon and Kalika Saxena and Sinan Liu and Chenyang Xu

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-111

May 14, 2015

This Capstone project aims to develop a novel memory controller to deliver a high-bandwidth interface for the DDR4 memory standard. DDR4 is the current cutting edge memory standard developed by JEDEC. The high-bandwidth interface is used as a communication link between a memory controller operating at 400MHz and a DDR4 SDRAM. Our team developed a physical interface that can transmit 3.2Gbps of data using only one transmission line. The design consisted of five major sub-modules: 8 to 1 Serializer, Transmitter, Receiver, 2 to 8 Deserializer, and Clock-Generating circuits. This paper discusses the design process, as well as the final results, of the completed 3.2Gbps 2 to 8 Deserializer module. The Deserializer discussed in this paper takes two data-line inputs operating at 1.6Gbps each, and deserializes them onto eight data-lines operating at 400Mbps each.

Advisors: Elad Alon and Vladimir Stojanovic

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Veryanskiy:EECS-2015-111,
    Author= {Veryanskiy, Miron and Dillon, Kyle and Saxena, Kalika and Liu, Sinan and Xu, Chenyang},
    Editor= {Alon, Elad and Stojanovic, Vladimir},
    Title= {Next Generation Memory Interfaces},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2015},
    Month= {May},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-111.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2015-111},
    Abstract= {This Capstone project aims to develop a novel memory controller to deliver a high-bandwidth interface for the DDR4 memory standard. DDR4 is the current cutting edge memory standard developed by JEDEC. The high-bandwidth interface is used as a communication link between a memory controller operating at 400MHz and a DDR4 SDRAM. Our team developed a physical interface that can transmit 3.2Gbps of data using only one transmission line. The design consisted of five major sub-modules: 8 to 1 Serializer, Transmitter, Receiver, 2 to 8 Deserializer, and Clock-Generating circuits. This paper discusses the design process, as well as the final results, of the completed 3.2Gbps 2 to 8 Deserializer module. The Deserializer discussed in this paper takes two data-line inputs operating at 1.6Gbps each, and deserializes them onto eight data-lines operating at 400Mbps each.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Thesis
%A Veryanskiy, Miron 
%A Dillon, Kyle 
%A Saxena, Kalika 
%A Liu, Sinan 
%A Xu, Chenyang 
%E Alon, Elad 
%E Stojanovic, Vladimir 
%T Next Generation Memory Interfaces
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2015
%8 May 14
%@ UCB/EECS-2015-111
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-111.html
%F Veryanskiy:EECS-2015-111