[SI-LIST] Re: DDR DRAM
- From: Scott McMorrow <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: chris_landrum@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:51:42 -0400
Chris,
No, your thinking is not sound. The margins on DDR busses are generally
low and require careful consideration of in-bus crosstalk. Crosstalk
within a bus on the data lines can be looked at in two ways.
#1) Crosstalk can be seen as noise injected from one signal into
another. This noise then adds to the instantaneous voltage on the
victim signal. This upset can look like additional positive or negative
overshoot, it can look like IEEE undershoot, in that it it supresses the
rising edge transition, or it can cause jitter in the waveform. All of
these can be detremental on bus operation. First, jitter translates
into a reduction of timing margin. Second, excessive overshoot can
cause receiver voltage to extend beyond the maximum operating range of
the device. This overshoot operation can cause eventual distruction of
the input through electromigration.
#2) Crosstalk can be seen as a dynamic impedance and propagation
velocity change on the victim line. This dynamic change, the magnitude
is dependent upon the magnitude of the crosstalk, and also commonly
called the even and odd model coupled transmission line characteristics,
is another way of looking at why excess jitter, overshoot and IEEE
undershoot occur in coupled transmission lines. Again, this can be
extreme enough to break bus operating margins for both voltage and timing.
Finally, crosstalk from DQ to QDS lines can be catestrophic, since noise
injected can rise to the extreme of causing false strobe transitions at
the receivers. Early DDR chipsets had to be redesigned due to DQ
signals being routed adjacent to DQS signals inside of packages, causing
bus failures.
I hope this description helps you.
regards,
scott
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