Jun 29, 2010 #1 A arnav Newbie level 2 Joined Apr 12, 2010 Messages 2 Helped 0 Reputation 0 Reaction score 0 Trophy points 1,281 Activity points 1,295 Hello, Recently, i saw some designs using several small blocks of memory instead of one large block to achieve the same capacity. Can anyone explain that why this configuration is preferred? e.g, instead of using two 4096x64bit RAM's, one could use 8192x128bit RAM. This way, user will acheive timings & area optimization. But, why to achieve large capacity, several small memory blocks are preferred? Thanks
Hello, Recently, i saw some designs using several small blocks of memory instead of one large block to achieve the same capacity. Can anyone explain that why this configuration is preferred? e.g, instead of using two 4096x64bit RAM's, one could use 8192x128bit RAM. This way, user will acheive timings & area optimization. But, why to achieve large capacity, several small memory blocks are preferred? Thanks
Jun 30, 2010 #2 Z Zman Junior Member level 1 Joined Sep 11, 2006 Messages 15 Helped 2 Reputation 4 Reaction score 0 Trophy points 1,281 Activity points 1,365 this can be related to availablility of address lines in MCU or availability of particular chips to purchase
this can be related to availablility of address lines in MCU or availability of particular chips to purchase