Get ready for DDR3/4/5 designs now

Designing reliable, high-speed memory interfaces isn’t just a skill—it’s an edge, and mastering it could be your game-changer in 2025

Jan 13, 2025

In February and March, we’re running a live face-to-face version of Hermann Ruckerbauers Opening the Black Box of Memory course.

From mastering DDR3/4/5 to tackling tricky interface challenges, this course will give you practical, hands-on insights you need to design and troubleshoot with confidence.

Please Reserve your seat for one of the two locations right now. We are filling up in Munich and have last call this Thursday for Copenhagen:

Copenhagen, Feb 25+26+27, 2025
Munich, Mar 4+5+6, 2025

Both places are in really nice locations with great food and enough coffee to keep you going.

Why you should join

Join this memory interface training course to completely understand memory interface design, how to make a great layout, how to optimize performance, and how to troubleshoot it. Significant performance benefits are possible when you master the details of memory interface design all the way into the details of DDR5.

This course will bring you back in control with a full understanding of everything that goes on in the memory interface. The what, why, and how of memory design. We also include practical measurements and how to qualify a memory design using a modern oscilloscope and what to watch out for when using built-in wizards and design guides.

Don’t listen to me - see what Danny wrote on LinkedIn:

This type of content is not what you get in a free webinar from a supplier. These courses are taught by someone who knows the subject inside out and has been in your shoes.

Travel

This face-to-face course runs with a late start on the first day and an early finish on the last day to support various travel arrangements:

Day 1 runs 10:00 to 17:00
Day 2 runs 9:00 to 16:00
Day 3 runs 8:30 to 15:30

Hope this works for you.

Expert instructor

Hermann Ruckerbauer is a consultant and owner of EyeKnowHow. Before founding EyeKnowHow, Hermann worked for many years with dynamic memory design and memory interface design at Qimonda AG, Infineon Technologies, and Siemens/Infineon and worked with JEDEC to define new dynamic memory standards.

New PDN Tool :)

Want a hand in selecting the right types and numbers of bypass capacitors? My simple calculator at pdntool.com was just updated and does just that. The tool simply takes your PDN requirements: A max impedance from DC to an upper frequency and then helps you find the number and types of capacitors needed to achieve that.

This is a very simplistic way to look at power integrity at the board level. This is however something that has worked very well for a large number of high-performance boards. And for good reasons.

Remember there is a non-trivial correlation between what you can influence at the board level and what happens on the die. In effect the inductances and capacitances involved in the path between your boards power planes and the die forms a low-pass filter. This is what sets the upper frequency you are about at the board level.

TRY IT OUT

Oh, and note: The tool is open source and you can simply download it to run on your on computer.

Now with YouTuber Robert Feranec

My video course in power and signal integrity is now also available (along with a bunch of other courses) through the FEDEVEL platform by electronics YouTuber Robert Feranec.

The course is a bundle of 3 parts, but really you should do all three as the whole thing is designed to go together:

Power & Signal Integrity Courses Package

Thanks for checking it out. And if you want to get it directly from my own platform you find it here along with other options like live-on-line:

EE-Training Signal Integrity with Hands-On Simulation

I do travel around the world to deliver this course face-to-face (always the best), so don’t hessitate to get in contact for a quote.

Thanks for reading - see you next time,

// Rolf (ee-training.dk)

PS: Don’t forget to sign up for the DDR memeory courses TODAY. We need to know if you are interested right now :)