Hi all, I am trying to design one DDR2 EVB board with one DIMM slot working at 667Mbps. During the board routing, I am planing to keep CMD/CTRL lengh matching with clk signal as possible as I can. However, when I did pre-layout SI simulation for CMD/CTRL vs. CLK(assuming unbufferd DIMM Card F has been inserted into the slot), the timing analysis results show that the CMD signal at receiver pad side has much longer flight time than clk signal, and sometimes CMD is even sampled at the next clk cycle instead of the corresponding clk cycle, which violates the read latency and write latency requirements. I checked the topology and found that in unbufferd DIMM card F, CMD trace lengh is almost 100mm longer than the CK trace. Based on my understandings, two ways may solve this problem. One is tuning silicon IO DLL timing,the other is extending the clk lengh on the EVB board. My question is: 1. How can I balance the two methods? Is there the third way to slove this problem? 2. In your unbufferd DIMM card mother board design, typically how much length difference between CMD and CLK signal group? 3. if the Register DIMM card instead unbuffered DIMM card insert into slot, what's the length match requirement in mother board design? Shall I need set my read and write latency one more cycle or EPROM in DIMM card has done it automatically? Really appreciate your inputs. fang _________________________________________________________________ 享用世界上最大的电子邮件系统― MSN Hotmail。 http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu