Graham Allan is the senior product marketing manager for DDR PHYs at Synopsys. He graduated from Carleton University’s Electrical Engineering program with a passion for electronics that landed him in the field of DRAM design at Mosaid in Ottawa, Canada. Beginning at the 64-kbit capacity, he worked on DRAM designs through the 256-Mbit generation. Starting in 1992, he was a key contributor to the JEDEC standards for SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, and DDR2 SDRAM. He holds over 20 patents in the field of DRAM and memory design.