In order to keep up with the growing need for memory bandwidth at low
cost, a new synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) architecture is proposed. The SDR
AM has programmable latency, burst length, and burst type for wide var
iety of applications. The experimental 16M SDRAM (2M x 8) achieves a 1
25-Mbyte/s data rate using 0.5-mum twin well CMOS technology.