NPF adopts QDR memory standard

The QDR SRAM Codevelopment Team has announced that the Network Processing Forum (NPF) has adopted key elements of the Quad Data Rate (QDR) interface as the standard for Phase 1 of its Look-Aside Interface (LA-1). QDR SRAM is a communications memory standard for network switches, routers, and other communications applications.

The LA-1 Interface is designed to offload certain tasks from the Network Processing Unit (NPU) and is targeted primarily, though not exclusively, at memory-based lookup coprocessors. QDR SRAM is one of the technologies on which LA-1 is based.

The QDR SRAM Codevelopment Team is further collaborating to define proprietary networking SRAM architecture. Its team members include Cypress, Micron, IDT, NEC, and Samsung.