Features, Features –3 – Altera DDR SDRAM High-Performance Controllers and ALTMEMPHY IP User Manual

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Chapter 1: About This IP

1–3

Features

June 2011

Altera Corporation

External Memory Interface Handbook Volume 3

Section I. DDR and DDR2 SDRAM Controllers with ALTMEMPHY IP User Guide

Table 1–2

shows the level of support offered by the DDR and DDR2 SDRAM

Controllers with ALTMEMPHY IP to each of the Altera device families.

Features

The ALTMEMPHY megafunction offers the following features:

Simple setup.

Support for the Altera PHY Interface (AFI) for DDR and DDR2 SDRAM on all
supported devices.

Automated initial calibration eliminating complicated read data timing
calculations.

Voltage and temperature (VT) tracking that guarantees maximum stable
performance for DDR and DDR2 SDRAM interfaces.

Self-contained datapath that makes connection to an Altera controller or a
third-party controller independent of the critical timing paths.

Full-rate and half-rate DDR and DDR2 SDRAM interfaces.

Easy-to-use parameter editor.

In addition,

Table 1–3

shows the features provided by the DDR and DDR2 SDRAM

HPC II.

Table 1–2. Device Family Support

Device Family

Support

Arria

®

GX

Final

Arria II GX

Final

Cyclone

®

III Final

Cyclone III LS

Final

Cyclone IV E

Final

Cyclone IV GX

Final

HardCopy II

HardCopy Companion

Stratix

®

II

Final

Stratix II GX

Final

Other device families

No support

Table 1–3. DDR and DDR2 SDRAM HPC and HPC II Features (Part 1 of 2)

Features

HPC II

Half-rate controller

v

Support for AFI ALTMEMPHY

v

Support for Avalon

®

Memory Mapped (MM) local interface

v

Configurable command look-ahead bank management with in-order reads
and writes

v

Additive latency

v

(1)

Support for arbitrary Avalon burst length

v

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