Rambus Develops Breakthrough Clocking Technology
Rambus Inc. announced the development of a fast power-on, low-power clocking technology that can enable a whole new class of memory devices. The technology is capable of going from a zero power idle state to a 5+ Gb/s data transfer rate in 5 nanoseconds (ns) all while achieving active power of 2.4mW/Gb/s. Rambus Inc. is looking for ways to improve the energy efficiency of servers and mobile systems with this approach a feed forward architecture is used to achieve extremely fast turn on and turn off, by doing this they simplify the system design and greatly reduces the overall system power requirements.
Through this work, weve dramatically reduced system complexity and have saved substantial power while increasing performance to more than 5Gb/s per differential link, said Jared Zerbe, technical director at Rambus. When incorporated into an SoC-to-memory interface, or SoC-to-SoC link, this development can significantly reduce the memory system power and time-to-first access, driving us closer to the vision of energy proportional computing.
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