A 2.5-V, 72-Mbit DRAM based on packet protocol has been developed using 1) a rotated hierarchical I/O architecture to reduce power noise and to minimize the chip-size penalty associated with an 8-bit prefetch architecture implemented with 16 internal banks and 144 I/O lines, 2) a delay-locked-loop circuit using a high-speed and small-swing differential clock to achieve the peak bandwidth of 2.0 GByte/s in a single chip with low noise sensitivity, and 3) a flexible column redundancy scheme to efficiently increase redundancy coverage using a shifted I/O line scheme for multibank architecture.Index Terms-CMOS DRAM, delay-locked loop (DLL), highspeed interface, low power, low voltage, packet protocol, redundancy.
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