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Honestly, SRAM bits per square mm seems like a perfectly fine metric for me. While I recognize that the memory-to-logic density varies, sometimes significantly,
by addaon 6y ago
Honestly, SRAM bits per square mm seems like a perfectly fine metric for me. While I recognize that the memory-to-logic density varies, sometimes significantly, between processes, (a) SRAM cells are optimized to within an inch of their lives ("within a nm of their lives"?), including often being revised in minor process updates, so accurately reflect the capabilities of the process; (b) many chips, including the ones I personally tend to be interested in (processors, etc) are SRAM-heavy, and get more so each generation; (c) it's a single number with some connection to reality, which is better than both a single number with limited connection to reality ("process"), or a whole suite of numbers that require deep interpretation (cell library metrics).
- baybal2 6y agoAnd it is exactly because SRAM gets so intensely optimised with each generation, I did not want to list it. SRAM density, and performance is not characteristic of how the rest of logic will perform no other logic component get squeezed so much.