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ＤＲＡＭの半導体装置は、クロックに同期して動作するタイプが主流である。

English translation: Most of DRAM-based semiconductor circuits are (currently) synchronized with the clock (signal).

11:25 May 28, 2008
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Patents / semiconductor device
Japanese term or phrase: ＤＲＡＭの半導体装置は、クロックに同期して動作するタイプが主流である。
I'm not really how these things work so I thought I would check. Thanks
Roger Johnson
Local time: 06:02
English translation:Most of DRAM-based semiconductor circuits are (currently) synchronized with the clock (signal).
Explanation:
What about:

Most of DRAM-based semiconductor circuits are (currently) synchronized with the clock (signal).

I am not sure what ＤＲＡＭの半導体装置 really is. If you say "semiconductor equipment," it sounds like semionductor device fabrication equioment, and I don't think this is the case.

As a matter of how you translate it, I guess you could say something like, "The (current) mainstream of DRAM-based semiconductor cirsuits are of the type that synchronizes with the clock signal" to be more faithful to the original. I think this is unnecessarily wordy in English. Would you agree?
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Yuki Okada
Canada
Local time: 14:02
Grading comment
Thanks Yuki-san, and thanks to Jean-Christophe and Ruth too:-)
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Summary of answers provided
4DRAM semiconductor device synchronized with the clock
Jean-Christophe Helary
3Most of DRAM-based semiconductor circuits are (currently) synchronized with the clock (signal).
Yuki Okada
3Most of DRAM semiconductor devices are synchronized with the (system)clock
V N Ganesh
2Most DRAM-based semiconductor devices are synchronized with the system clock.
Raitei
1semiconductor devices operating in sync with a clock signal predominate DRAMs
Maynard Hogg


  

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DRAM semiconductor device synchronized with the clock


Explanation:
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6337826/fulltext.html

Jean-Christophe Helary
Japan
Local time: 06:02
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 12
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Most of DRAM-based semiconductor circuits are (currently) synchronized with the clock (signal).


Explanation:
What about:

Most of DRAM-based semiconductor circuits are (currently) synchronized with the clock (signal).

I am not sure what ＤＲＡＭの半導体装置 really is. If you say "semiconductor equipment," it sounds like semionductor device fabrication equioment, and I don't think this is the case.

As a matter of how you translate it, I guess you could say something like, "The (current) mainstream of DRAM-based semiconductor cirsuits are of the type that synchronizes with the clock signal" to be more faithful to the original. I think this is unnecessarily wordy in English. Would you agree?


Yuki Okada
Canada
Local time: 14:02
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 96
Grading comment
Thanks Yuki-san, and thanks to Jean-Christophe and Ruth too:-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jean-Christophe Helary: DRAM _are_ semiconductor devices :)
29 mins
agree  Ruth Sato: I like this but "of" is not necessary.
1 hr
disagree  Maynard Hogg: Most? Not a very good gloss for 主流.
1 day 2 hrs
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Most of DRAM semiconductor devices are synchronized with the (system)clock


Explanation:
DRAM-Dynamic Random Access Memory

Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) is faster because it is synchronized to the system clock, 7.5 ns; DDR SDRAM, 3ns; RDRAM (Intel and Rambus is trying to push), ...
ww2.cis.temple.edu/laurie/class/architecture.ppt

V N Ganesh
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Maynard Hogg: System appears nowhere in the Japanese.
1 day 38 mins
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Most DRAM-based semiconductor devices are synchronized with the system clock.


Explanation:
Due to the context, I feel that "system" should be added.

http://www.eetasia.com/ARTICLES/2002DEC/A/2002DEC06_PL_MEM_A...

Raitei
Japan
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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1 day 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
semiconductor devices operating in sync with a clock signal predominate DRAMs


Explanation:
I had to laugh at the 装置 bit because, in the semiconductor business, we don't call DRAMs "chips." They're "devices."

BTW, "synchronized with the clock signal" gets things backwards. The clock signal "drives" the device's circuits. Yes, the result is synchronization, but...

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Space is what prevents everything from happening to me.
* Attributed to John Archibald Wheeler

Maynard Hogg
Canada
Local time: 14:02
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Raitei: Somehow I cannot get my brain around this wording. The way it is written, it can be interpreted that semiconductor devices and DRAMs are two different things (Buffet spreads at sushi restaurants predominates Vancouver's lower mainland.)
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