I would expect, if both data lines are held at the same value, that if = you were to measure the impedance between them on the board you would see roughly twice the on-resistance of the I/Os. If the drivers are very, = very strong (on the order of 5 or 10 ohms on-resistance), then you could get close to 10 or 20 ohms. Then if you hold them at different values, you should see a reactive impedance; the capacitance between your power and ground rails charging up. I guess the question might be whether the impedance between the two = lines changes drastically during your test time. I assume from your posting you've checked that and found a significant change. How much does it change? Doug -----Original Message----- From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = On Behalf Of Andrew Seddon Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:09 PM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] SDRAM Blowup! Ok, slight exageration, but an interesting problem non the less! I have a board with a uP connected to a 133Mhz SDRAM and a connector. = The connector brings out the address/data bus which is then passed on to = another board. Total trace lengths across both boards for the address/data bus (including connector) are about 4 inches. The connector is a simple = 1.27mm spacing type. All specific SDRAM signals stay on the first board(CLK, CAS,RAS etc). Both boards are 50ohm controlled impedance but no traces = are terminated and the connectors could have any impedance?? Now we've had a few back that have been working nicely with no SI = problems what so ever. However the latest lot are showing a really weird problem. After running fine reading from SDRAM for a couple of hours data lines become shorted together (about 7 ohms, eg D7+D9 etc) removing the SDRAM cures the short. However there is no short on the bare removed SDRAM. Secondly forceably driving the data lines to different values takes the short resistance upto about 200ohms, and the SDRAM then works fine for another couple of hours. This problem occurs even at low 50mhz bus freq's. So my question is, has anybody ever seen anything like this before/have = any suggestions? I'm trying to get hold of a high speed scope at the minute = to see what's going on but any tips would be really usefull. My current = theory is some sort of ringing effect that is overdriving the pins and causing = an internal brake-down in the SDRAM's output drivers. The confusing thing is another batch of supposidly identical boards runs fine for day's on end. Cheers guys, any help much appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: =20 //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 =20 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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