To: Richard Haugland who wrote (3051 ) 8/12/1998 3:54:00 AM From: AlienTech Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Remember all the channel stuffing crap going on a few months ago but NETA at the time was selling most of the stuff over the net? Well I found out where all those bits went.. Some company called baby rambo, RMBS took the loose bits and made it bounce around... The stuffed bits are still around, I think.. they are just well channeled better.I have studied Rambus and I will try to explain why their design is faster than DRAM. In DRAM memory, in order to read or write values the processor must push electrons into the address lines. The address traces charge up like tiny capacitors eventually building up inside the transistors of the DRAM address decode and activate the gates. Then, to read, the DRAM must push electrons into data lines, charging them and activating the buffer transistors back in the processor. Before the action can be repeated these electrons must be allowed to bleed out to the ground circuits. Electrons are fast so this process can be repeated 100 million times a second.The bits just keep traveling around a loop to the detector . Other technologies try to overlap address and data timing or use both edges of the clock signal but they all still have to fight the capacitance in the lines and dispose of that capacitance at the end of the operation.
