Erwin, if you make a T with significant stubs then you will need a driver capable of driving one half the line impedance and separate damping resistors for each of the two segments. If the segments are unequal length, then you will also get some additional ringback. If you drive a daisy chain, then if the nearest load will not settle until 2*Tflight_far - Tflight_near Steve. At 02:13 PM 7/27/2004 +0800, SEOW, ERWIN wrote: >Hi SI gurus, > >I am presently routing a board using 2 DDR RAMS. I would like to know >how do we route the common lines (Eg Address lines) ? > >Do we use Daisy Chain? > >Or a "T" where the driver is at the bottom and splits to each ot the >DRAMS? > >Of the 2 methods, what are the pros and cons? > >Thanks in advance! > >Best regards > >Erwin Seow > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >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 FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > >List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > >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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org 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