PC Magazine

Reminder: DDR4 RAM Won't Fit Into DDR5 Slots and Vice Versa

The dawn of DDR5 RAM is near. But if you expect the memory standard to support your old DDR4 RAM modules, you’re out of luck. The pin layout on a DDR5 RAM stick is slightly different compared to DDR4.
Electronic Design

Eye-Diagram Analysis Speeds DDR SDRAM Validation

Double-data-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) physical-layer testing is a crucial step in making sure devices comply with the JEDEC specification. The ultimate goal is to ...
EDN

Improving performance using SPI-DDR NOR flash memory

Excellent read bandwidth and low access latency has made NOR Flash the technology of choice for real-time code execution from non-volatile memory. Parallel NOR devices continue as the memory of choice ...
TweakTown

DDR-2 vs. DDR-3 Memory - An exhaustive look at the Intel P35 platform

DDR-3 memory is not exactly something new, we have been hearing about it for over a year thanks to the VGA market. Much was the same with DDR-2 and much will be the same with GDDR-4 as we are hearing ...
Digital Trends

The lowdown on DDR4 RAM: When will it get here, and what will it do once it arrives?

What is RAM?Over the past few years, nearly every PC component, including storage drives, graphics accelerators, motherboards, and CPUs, has seen significant performance updates—everything except the ...
PC Magazine

Reminder: DDR4 RAM Won't Fit Into DDR5 Slots and Vice Versa

As you can see, the layout for the connectors is slightly different. So don't jam one RAM module into the slot of another or else you might break something. I have been interested in science and ...