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10 years ago

How to estimate the effective bandwidth of cycloneiv ddr2 HPC II?

Hi all: I am preparing a cycloneiv+DDR2 based image solution. These is one question puzzles me. What is the effective bandwidth of DDR2 if I select altera's ddr2 HPCII ipcore? Th...
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10 years ago

I'd recommend a conservative value like 80 percent. In practice you should be able to achieve significantly higher than that. Doing out the arithmetic you should quickly find x16 is too narrow and x32 is more than adequate.