Semiconductor Engineering

More Errors, More Correction in Memories

As memory bit cells of any type become smaller, bit error rates increase due to lower margins and process variation. This can be dealt with using error correction to ...
Hackaday

Error-Correcting RAM On The Desktop

When running a server, especially one with mission-critical applications, it’s common practice to use error-correcting code (ECC) memory. As the name suggests, it uses an error-correcting algorithm to ...
EDN

Intelligent Memory samples LPDDR4 ECC DRAM

Intelligent Memory is expanding its DRAM line with a new series of LPDDR4(X) devices with integrated ECC (error correction code) capabilities. LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X ...
Ars Technica

Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus

This Monday, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds went on a frustrated rant about the lack of Error Correcting Checksum (ECC) RAM in consumer PCs and laptops. … the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DRAM Chips That Employ On-Die Error Correction & Related Reliability Techniques

DRAM Choices Becoming Central Design Considerations Memory footprint, speed and density scaling are compounded by low-power constraints. Improving Memory Efficiency And Performance CXL and OMI will ...
Electronic Design

COM Express Mini Module Features ECC Memory

The conga-MA3E, a COM Express Mini Type 10 module from congatec, is based on the Intel Atom E3800 series of processors. The module utilizes error correction code, or ...