Cadence’s Senior Manager of Technical Communications and a longtime EDA observer Richard Goering attended the recent Flash Memory Summit held last week in Santa Clara, California and came away with eight key ideas that closely tie memory to system design. The first four are:

• Memory may be the most important part of your system.
• You have to understand the end-user applications to choose a memory subsystem.
• Deep collaboration between OEMs and memory provides is becoming crucial.
• Existing memory technologies are running into limits.

For explanations of these first four ideas and to see the last four with their explanations, click here.