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SYiwe
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6 years ago

What's the reason of “Write per-bit deskew fail” during DDR4 calibration

Hi everyone, Arria10 SoC DDR4 Interface calibration failed at the stage "write per-bit deskew", is there any Intel employee or FPGA customer knows the reason? PCB design problem? Power supply prob...
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NurAida_A_Intel
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6 years ago

Hi SYiwe,

There are a lot of reasons that can cause DDR4 calibration failure. For example as below:

  • Board design issue – FPGA power or RZQ termination issue
  • Quartus design timing closure issue – Is DDR4 design operating within spec ? Does Timequest DDR4 report show clean timing closure with positive margin ? Need to check this.
  • DDR4 IP setting issue – Make sure you verified all the setting in DDR4 IP is correct.
  1. I have attached excel file which a typical DDR4 calibration failure debug checklist where you can find detail debugging guildeline. This is for Arria 10 device but it is still useful for other device as well.
  2. Also you may go through and check this calibration checklist to see on the potential root cause that may impact the calibration. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/support-resources/support-centers/devices/cfg-index/calibration-checklist.html

I hope this helps.😊

Regards,

NAli1