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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoWhat's the different usage between SDRAM and SRAM?
Hi, all When i build a SOPC system, I can use external SDRAM or SRAM as the system memory. I want to know what's the difference between them. I assume their function the same except...
Altera_Forum
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15 years agoSRAMs have a simple hardware interface that allows access to any location in a single clock cycle.
SDRAMs (all xxxDRAMs are similarish) require the high and low address bits be supplied on separate clocks, and then a burst of adjacent memory locations can be accessed (eg for a cache line fill). The 'high' address page can be kept selected for a subsequent access (to the same page) at a cost of increased power and a slower access to a different page. The effect is that SDRAM has a longer latency and more complex interface logic than SRAM.