New Registered Clock Driver and Consumer Clock Driver ICs are First to Assist DDR5 Server and Consumer DIMM Modules at Speeds as much as 6400 MT/s
Renesas Electronics Company, a premier provider of superior semiconductor options, launched the third technology DDR5 registered clock driver (RCD) in addition to the first-generation shopper clock driver (CKD) for rising DDR5 DRAM servers and shopper methods. With these new driver ICs, Renesas continues to be the one supplier to supply an entire portfolio of DDR5 reminiscence interfaces for twin inline reminiscence modules (DIMMs), motherboards and embedded purposes.
The DDR5 RCD and DDR5 CKD ICs allow the subsequent technology of DIMMs with speeds of as much as 6400 and 7200 megatransfers per second (MT/s), respectively, a rise from as we speak’s 5600 MT/s switch speeds. Renesas’ Gen 3 DDR5 RCD is designed for registered DIMMs (RDIMMs). The CKD helps speeds as much as 7200 MT/s and is the primary within the business to interface with small-outline DIMMs (SODIMMs), unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMMs), high-performance gaming DIMMs and reminiscence down purposes for shopper platforms.
“Because the business’s main supplier of reminiscence interface merchandise, Renesas continues to make excellent contributions in pushing the reminiscence eco-system to new frontiers of efficiency and energy” stated Balaji Kanigicherla, Company Vice President and Common Supervisor of the Superior Blended Sign and ASIC Options Division at Renesas. “By enjoying an integral function in defining and implementing DDR5 interface specs, Renesas continues to be an essential companion for the world’s main SOC and DRAM gamers for DIMM and system-level carry up.”
“Intel Xeon-based platforms are designed to assist reminiscence intensive usages like predictive analytics that use deep studying and machine studying. Gen 3 RCD is a significant milestone for the reminiscence business to assist meet the bandwidth and scaling capability wants of our datacenter clients”, stated Dr. Dimitrios Ziakas, Vice President of Reminiscence and IO Applied sciences at Intel. “The shopper clock driver is a new business initiative to additional improve the shopper DIMM. Renesas and Intel have been collaborating with the business to assist guarantee specification and implementations of the Gen 3 RCD and shopper clock driver to fulfill the market wants.”
The RCD driver buffers the command deal with (CA) bus, chip selects and clock between the host controller and DRAM modules, along with making a BCOM bus to regulate LRDIMM knowledge buffering. The new driver enhances decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) assist by rising the DFE faucets from 4 to 6 to enhance receiver margin, whereas I2C and I3C sideband bus assist offers direct contact to the register entry management.
The CKD buffers the clock between the host controller and DRAM, which is a new requirement for DDR5 DIMMs working at speeds of as much as 7200 MT/s for shopper DIMMs and reminiscence down purposes. The new clock driver helps I2C and I3C sideband entry to allow asynchronous management and offers entry to inside management phrases for configuring gadget options and adapting to totally different SODIMM and UDIMM configurations and reminiscence down system purposes.
RCD and CKD Driver Profitable Combos
Renesas has mixed the RCD and CKD drivers with different suitable units from its Profitable Combos portfolio, together with DDR5 energy administration built-in circuits (PMICs) and serial presence detect (SPD) hubs for the CKD. The RCD will also be paired with Renesas’ temperature sensors, SPD Hub, PMICs, and knowledge buffers. Profitable Combos are technically vetted system architectures from mutually suitable units that work collectively seamlessly to carry an optimized, low-risk design for sooner time to market. Renesas affords greater than 400 Profitable Combos with a variety of merchandise from the Renesas portfolio to allow clients to hurry up the design course of and convey their merchandise to market extra rapidly.
Availability
The RG5C172B0C0GBX#BC0 and RG5C172B0C0GBX#HC0 shopper clock drivers are sampling now in a 2.3mm x 5.8mm 35-FCBGA bundle and shall be accessible in quantity within the second half of 2023. The RG5R364A0C0GBY#BC0 and RG5R364A0C0GBY#HC0 DDR5 third-generation registered clock drivers are sampling now in an 8.7mm x 13.5mm FCCSP bundle and shall be accessible in quantity within the first half of 2024
