High-density 18 Mb dual-port RAM.(Integrated Circuits)

ECN-Electronic Component News, February, 2004

Cypress Semiconductor has reached volume production of its high-density and high-bandwidth dual-port (DP) RAM. The FLEx72[TM] 18 Mb DP RAM is a synchronous, pipelined dual-port memory that provides 72-bit wide ports enabling up to 19.2 Gbps of bandwidth. It provides simultaneous access to any location in the memory--either port can write and read data into and out of any memory location at the same time. This feature, combined with the ability to run both ports in two independent clock domains, enables the buffering of large packets of data between two processing elements in a system. It also eliminates bus contention issues by enabling system architects to create a distributed bus architecture. Configured as a 256K X 72 device, the FLEx72 DP RAM operates up to 133 MHz...

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