Hi, describing this in words is always quite difficult. I would have some slides with animations, and if some more people are interested I could show this in a short Webmeeting (hoping the animations would work there). I have only capability for doing small webmeetings, so if someone would volunteer to set a meeting up this would be great. Let me know if somebody is interested. Hermann EKH - EyeKnowHow Hermann Ruckerbauer www.EyeKnowHow.de Hermann.Ruckerbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Veilchenstrasse 1 94554 Moos Tel.: +49 (0)9938 / 902 083 Mobile: +49 (0)176 / 787 787 77 Fax: +49 (0)3212 / 121 9008 schrieb Moran, Brian P: > Surita, > > Let me try to give you a quick tutorial on derating, which should answer > your question. Please follow up if I don't answer your question fully. > > Derating consists of two components. There is the reciever derating at Vref, > which tends to be 0ps at 1V/ns and above, and then increases as slew rate > slows. > This accounts for the fact that the SDRAM reciever timing starts to degrade as > slew rate drops below 1V/ns. It's a function of the reciever design, and this > derating at Vref curve is defined by the SDRAM vendors. It has not chnaged > significantly since DDR2. The second component of derating is threshold > compensation. > This only comes into play when you measure flight times to AC or DC > thresholds. > Measuring to the AC or DC thresholds tends to distort the flight time > measurements. > This type of derating is dependent on threshold level, which si why you get > different > derating tables as speed bin increases. Its not the speed the matetrs, but > the AC > abd DC thresholds. So what the JEDEC task group did was to apply a fixed > adjustment > to the tSU and tHD specs at Vref, to account for this distortion at AC and DC. > This adjustment is based on an input slew rate of 1V/ns. So if your tSU at > Vref was > 500 ps, and your AC threshold is 175 mV, the tSU at AC is 325 ps. ON the > hold side, > if your tHD was 500 ps at Vref, then tHD at DC is 400 ps. They have > pre-biased > the tSU by 175ps to compensate for the additioanl flight time caused by > measuring > to AC175, vs Vref. > > One quick thought exercise is to note that the margin calculated at Vref and > that > calculated at AC threshold, for the same linear non-ledging signal should be > equal. > This goes back to when you had the option of measuring to Vref or to AC/DC. > > Ok, since they pre-biased the tSU spec by 175ps to account for AC threshold > distortion > in your flight time, what happens if your slew rate was actually 2V/ns. That > means they > pre-biased too much and have to take some back. This is where the +88ps comes > from. If > the slew rate was 0.5V/ns then they did not compensate enough and you will > get negative > numbers in the threshold compensation table at SRs less than 1V/ns. > > The composite derating table shown in the JEDEC spec is the sum of the > reciever derating > at Vref plus the threshold compensation. Threshold compensation is a purely > algebraic > formula, which is; 175ps - 175mV/SR for an AC threshold of 175mV. The final > derating table > is characterized by having 0 at 1V/ns, then increasingly positive numbers at > SRs above 1V/ns > and increasingly negative at SRs below 1V/ns. This trend is beginning to > break as we get to > smaller and smaller AC thresholds, but for now it's a simpe rule of thumb. > > Also note that a positive number in the derating tbale always reduces margin, > and visa versa. > > Like I said, follow up with another emial if its not clear. I consider myself > pretty > knowledgable on derating and can provide some supporting docs if needed. > > > Brian Moran > Signaling Development Group > Client Platforms > Intel Corporation > > -----Original Message----- > From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Surita Chandani > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:15 PM > To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SI-LIST] DDR3 Slew Rate derating. > > > > > I am trying to understand DDR3 slew rate derating. Let > us say we are working with a differential DQS with a fixed slew rate of 2.0 > V/ns. > > > > When the DQ slew rate is 1.5 V/ns the setup time is 59 > ps. When the DQ slew rate increases to 2.0 V/ns, the setup time increases to > 88 > ps. I thought the setup time would go down with a faster signal. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu