RE: SDRAM mirroring problem
From: Anil Giri <hidden>
Date: 2003-11-18 11:01:48
Hi, Thanks for the response. Quoting "VanBaren, Gerald (AGRE)" [off-list ref]:
Well, an uninformed response may be better than no response??? Here goes... I don't understand how your hardware is set up. a) Are you connecting the two 64Mbyte chips in parallel as a 32 bit wide data bus (this is implied by your use of one chip select). This is contradicted by your statement "My problem is that when i write some word in first RAM chip is mirrored in the other RAM chip.And Effectivly
Sorry for the goof up, basically whatever i write to 0th (0x0) memory location in getting replicated to 64th MB (0x4000000) location
i m able to use only 64 MB of RAM." which implies that the two chips
are expected to be sequential in memory address space.
b) If you are connecting the two chips up sequentially as 64MB by 16
bits wide on the data bus, you need separate chip selects with the
first one providing the first 64MBytes of decoded address space and
the second one the second 64MBytes.
Cheap ASCII art:
a) +----+----++----+----+ 00000000
|byt0|byt1||byt2|byt3|
| | || | |
| | || | |
+----+----++----+----+ 03FFFFFF
chip0 chip1The ram chips are connected in above fashion with single chip select.
b) +----+----+ 00000000 |byt0|byt1| |byt2|byt3| chip0 | | | +----+----+ 01FFFFFF +----+----+ 02000000 | | | | | | chip1 | | | +----+----+ 03FFFFFFFquoted
-----Original Message----- From: Anil Giri [mailto:anil@india.tejasnetworks.com] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:54 AM Subject: SDRAM mirroring problem My board uses SAMSUNG K4S511632M SDRAM in 8M * 16 bit * 4 banks configuration (13 rows & 10 columns).Two such chips are used to get 128 MB and uses CS1 for chip select.My board uses MPC852T processor. MPC to SDRAM configuration is as follows: ====================== A29 :A0 A28 :A1 A27 :A2 A26 :A3 A25 :A4 A24 :A5 A23 :A6 A22 :A7 A21 :A8 A20 :A9 GPL_A0 : A10 A18 :A11 A17 :A12 A6 :BA0 A5 :BA1 GPL_A3 :CAS GPL_A2 :RAS GPL_A5 :WE ===================== My problem is that when i write some word in first RAM chip is mirrored in the other RAM chip.And Effectivly i m able to use only 64 MB of RAM. What could be the problem??? Following SDRAM settings are used IMMR:0xff000000 OR1: 0xf8000e00 BR1: 0x00000081 MSTAT:0x00000400 MAMR: 0x80a06114 MAR: 0x88 MCR:0x80002105
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