Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2003-11-18

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      chip1
The ram chips are connected in above fashion with single chip select.
b) +----+----+ 00000000
   |byt0|byt1|
   |byt2|byt3| chip0
   |    |    |
   +----+----+ 01FFFFFF
   +----+----+ 02000000
   |    |    |
   |    |    | chip1
   |    |    |
   +----+----+ 03FFFFFFF
quoted
-----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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