Memory Systems

Catalog description

This course targets the overlapping areas of device physics, VLSI Design, advanced processes, electrical characterization and circuit architecture as it applies to modern memory systems. While there are no specific set of pre-requisite courses, students should be willing to work on problems involving the previously mentioned topics. Course work will trace the design, development, fabrication, packaging and testing of SRAM, DRAM and Flash Memory, and then branch off into MRAM, FRAM and PRAM technology. The course wraps up with an exploration of future memory system candidates such as quantum, molecular and optical memory systems. Students will write a term paper on an aspect of memory systems of particular interest to them (proposed topic must still be approved by the instructor).