Features – Achronix Speedster22i DDR User Manual

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Features

The features supported by the embedded DDR controllers are highlighted below:

1866 Mbps data rate

The controller and PHY can run at 1066 MHz to achieve 1866 Mbps rate at the

memory interface. A 2X Clock setting enables the core to run at half the speed -

533MHz. There is an additional feature to enable a wide bus interface, which

effectively enables the core to run at one quarter the speed - 266MHz. The 2X

clock setting and wide bus interfaces can be enabled at any data rate, thereby

reducing the core frequency by half, or a quarter, respectively.

4 Chip Selects per controller

The external memory connected to each controller can comprise of up to 4 ranks

(either two dual-rank DIMMs or one quad rank DIMM)

Registered DIMM and Unbuffered DIMM support

Each controller can independently support either rDIMMs or uDIMMs

Address mirroring is supported.

Multi-Burst Mode

Each controller supports multi-burst mode, up to a burst length of 252 (DDR2) /

254 (DDR) / 248(DDR3). This allows the embedded controller to automatically

issue up to 252 cascaded read or write commands to automatically increment

addresses based on a single command from the Core Fabric

Backwards Compatible

The embedded DDR controllers can support DDR3 (up to 1866 Mbps), DDR2 (up

to 800 Mbps) and DDR protocols

Bypassable

If the user does not require all six DDR controllers, any (or all) can be bypassed

to leverage use of the designated I/Os for other purposes

If the user does not require all 72-bits of the data bus, unused byte lanes can be

bypassed to leverage use of the designated I/Os for other purposes

Minimal LUT use

The DDR controllers are embedded (hardened), and therefore do not use any of

the LUTs in the core fabric

LUTs are only required to interface the DDR Controllers

Zero License fees

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UG031, Nov 18, 2014

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