Rev: 2.00f 6/2002 1/27 © 2002, Giga Semiconductor, Inc.
Specifications cited are design targets and are subject to change without notice. For latest documentation contact your GSI representative.
Preliminary
GS8180D18D-333/300/250/200
18Mb Σ2x2B4
SigmaQuad SRAM
200 MHz–333 MHz
1.8 V V
DD
1.8 V and 1.5 V I/O
165-Bump BGA 
Commercial Temp 
Industrial Temp
Features
• Simultaneous Read and Write SigmaQuad™ Interface
• JEDEC-standard pinout and package
• Dual Double Data Rate interface
• Echo Clock outputs track data output drivers
• Byte Write controls sampled at data-in time
• Burst of 4 Read and Write
• 1.8 V +150/–100 mV core power supply
• 1.5 V or 1.8 V HSTL Interface
• Pipelined read operation
• Fully coherent read and write pipelines
• ZQ mode pin for programmable output drive strength
• IEEE 1149.1 JTAG-compliant Boundary Scan
• 165-bump, 13 mm x 15 mm, 1 mm bump pitch BGA package
• Pin-compatible with future 36Mb, 72Mb, and 144Mb devices 
SigmaRAM™ Family Overview
GS8180D18 are built in compliance with the SigmaQuad SRAM 
pinout standard for Separate I/O synchronous SRAMs. They are 
18,874,368-bit (18Mb) SRAMs. These are the first in a family of wide, 
very low voltage HSTL I/O SRAMs designed to operate at the speeds 
needed to implement economical high performance networking 
systems. 
SigmaQuad SRAMs are offered in a number of configurations. Some 
emulate and enhance other synchronous separate I/O SRAMs. A 
higher performance SDR (Single Data Rate) Burst of 2 version is also 
offered. The logical differences between the protocols employed by 
these RAMs hinge mainly on various combinations of address 
bursting, output data registering, and write cueing. Along with the 
Common I/O family of SigmaRAMs, the SigmaQuad family of SRAMs 
allows a user to implement the interface protocol best suited to the 
task at hand. 
Clocking and Addressing Schemes
A 
Σ
2x2B4 SigmaQuad SRAM is a synchronous device. It employs 
two input register clock inputs, K and K
. K and K are independent 
single-ended clock inputs, not differential inputs to a single differential 
clock input buffer. The device also allows the user to manipulate the 
output register clock inputs quasi independently with the C and C 
clock inputs. C and C
 are also independent single-ended clock inputs, 
not differential inputs. If the C clocks are tied high, the K clocks are 
routed internally to fire the output registers instead. Each 
Σ
2x2B4 
SigmaQuad SRAM also supplies Echo Clock outputs, CQ and CQ
, 
that are synchronized with read data output. When used in a source 
synchronous clocking scheme, these Echo Clock outputs can be used 
to fire input registers at the data’s destination.
Because Separate I/O 
Σ
2x2B4 RAMs always transfer data in four 
packets, A0 and A1 are internally set to 0 for the first read or write 
transfer, and automatically incremented by 1 for the next transfers. 
Because the LSBs are tied off internally, the address field of a 
Σ
2x2B4 RAM is always two address pins less than the advertised 
index depth (e.g., the 1M x 18 has a 256K addressable index).
- 333 -300 -250 -200
tKHKH 3.0 ns 3.3 ns 4 ns 5 ns
tKHQV 1.6 ns 1.8 ns 2.1 ns 2.3 ns
165-Bump, 13 mm x 15 mm BGA
1 mm Bump Pitch, 11 x 15 Bump Array
Bottom View
JEDEC Std. MO-216, Variation CAB-1