Want to get ready for DDR5 designs?

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

Dec 16, 2024

If debugging memory interfaces feels like solving a riddle, you’re not alone—let’s make 2025 the year you master memory interface design.

As Christmas approaches, it’s that time of year when we finally get a moment to pause and reflect. Between the gift shopping, decorating, and (hopefully) some well-earned relaxation, it’s also a great opportunity to think about where you want to grow in the year ahead.

For many of us in the world of hardware design, there’s always something new to learn. That’s why I’m excited to share that in February, we’re running a live face-to-face version of Hermann Ruckerbauers Opening the Black Box of Memory course.

From mastering DDR5 to tackling tricky interface challenges, this course will give you practical, hands-on insights you need to design and troubleshoot with confidence.

So as you sip that mulled wine or set up your Christmas tree, why not take a moment to think about leveling up your skills in the new year? I’d love to help you hit the ground running in 2025.

One very simple thing you can do right now is: Reserve your seat with zero obligations for one of the two locations:

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 with dynamic memory design and memory interface design at Qimonda AG, Infineon Technologies, and Siemens/Infineon for many years and worked with JEDEC for the definition of new dynamic memory standards.

Want go to above 56 Gbps?

My masterclass in signal integrity has been updated with a full extra day to also cover everything you need to design serial links and high power chip pulling 100s of amps. So not only can I help you with the comprehensive 3-day class where you are guaranteed to leave smarter than 99% of the app note writers in our industry :) I can also do a version that starts a bit up the learning curve and takes you even further.

You now have more options for this course:

Self-paced video course (perfect as a refresher or WFH learning)
Live online (for Europe/Asia timezone, 5 days x 4 hours)
On-site (I am doing these worldwide - typically 3 days)
On-site with more focus on 10+ Gbps links. Optionally with one day as self paced video and 3 days of live training.

Let me tell you what is in the video course (and in the other formats):

Useful for:

Refresher - you may have done the course before and want a brush-up
On the train - turn the commute into learning
Work from home days - add some learning into some weekly WFH days
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The course has 7-8h of video in total. This is all the content I normally go through in 3x8h in-person-live and 5x4h live-on-line. It's much more compressed when you take out the breaks, questions, time for labs, and all the ehhhm “filler” stuff.

Every video is individually edited by a professional video editor and is complete with English subtitles. The whole thing is hosted on a platform called LearnWorlds that handles network connectivity, video streaming, payments, user support, and everything you expect from a professional video course supplier.

Since it is on video and thus very one-way I will also put participants on a Slack channel where you can ask questions while going through the subjects.

On top of this, I will host a live ask-me-anything session online every month. This will allow for more direct forth-and-back on specific or more complex questions.

Why your next PC is AMD based?

This article explains a lot about why Intel has dropped behind the game in the semiconductor (CPU) race.

https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/intel-on-the-brink-of-death

Very much worth a read.

As usual, running tech companies without a lot of experience with the specific type of tech is not a good idea. Management can do a lot of damage to technology companies - even very experienced management. And as always - everything starts at the top. And when the top is bad it is tough for even the best engineering to make up for that.

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