Digital Memory and Storage

ISBN-13: 9783528084097 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1978 / 423 str.

Walter E. Proebster

Opis

Digital memory and storage technologies occupy a dominant position in electronic data processing: They are intimately interwoven with almost all aspects of a data processing system, be it the control processing unit, the peripheral devices or the program and data storage. In this context, memory and storage is one of the most essential design parameters that determine performance and cost efficiency of the entire system to a very high degree. Beyond the field of electronic data processing, digital memory and storage fmd ever widening application in the areas of control and measurement techniques, in digital communication and switching, and lately, even in the area of the consumer electronic market. This explains, why since the beginning of the computer age, digital memory and storage are finding ever increasing attention in research and development. Of the many different memory and storage technologies investigated for application, only very few survived in the tough economic cost/performance struggle. This process still continues: Semiconductor memories have almost completely replaced the ferrite core memories. For the "gap" in cost and performance between memory and storage - which is of growing importance for systems throughput, particularly for query and database systems - very promising proposals, such as charge coupled devices and magnetic bubble memories appear. For very high data volumes, devices with automatic storage media transport have been conceived and developed. For extremely fast memories, research on low temperature Josephson devices has made Significant advances.

Spis treści

Keynote Address.- On the Development of Digital Memories.- Electromagnetic Storage.- Magnetic Data Recording.- Electromechanical Mass Storage Units — Disk Files.- Electromagnetic Mass Storages — Normal Tape Devices 53.- Tape Libraries with Automatic Reel Transport.- Semiconductor Memories.- Fabrication Technology and Physical Fundamentals of Components Used for Semiconductor Memories.- LSI Semiconductor Memories.- A High Performance Low Power 2048-Bit Memory Chip in MOSFET Technology and Its Application.- Readout Methods and Readout Circuits for Dynamik Charge-Storage Elements.- Monolithic Memories.- Structure, Organization and Applications of CCD Memories.- BEAMOS — Technology and Applications.- Read-Only Memories.- Read-Only Memories with Magnetic Components or with Integrated Semiconductor Circuits.- Electrically Alterable MOS-ROMs, with Particular Emphasis on the Floating Gate Type.- Magnetic Bubble Memories.- Physical Principles of Magnetic Bubble Domain Memory Devices.- Application of the Josephson Effect for Digital Storage.- Ferromagnetic Domain Memories.- Low Temperature Memories.- Application of the Josephson Effect for Digital.- Optical Memories.- Materials for Optical Data Stores.- Optical Memory Systems.- Reliability.- Effects of Defects on Yield, Integration, Cost and Reliability of Large Scale Integrated Semiconductor Memories. — A Tutorial Review.- Reliability of Semiconductor Memories from a Practical Point of View.- Application of Partially Defective Semiconductor Memory Devices in Memory Systems.- Memory / Storage Systems.- Access Methods and Associative Memories.- Increased Chip Capacity and Extended Logical Complexity of LSI-Associative Memories.- Storage Hierarchy Technology and Organization.- The Performance of Small Cache Memories in Minicomputer Systems with Several Processors.- Summary of Abstracts.- The Autors, the Editor.