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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

DDR2 vs DDR3 Throughput

Hi all, I have to update a board. The old design (Cyclone IV) used DDR2 Altmemphy running at 133MHz over 16 Bits. The new design (Arria V) will use DDR3 Uniphy with the Hard EMIF running a...
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13 years ago

Your arithmetic and theoretical numbers are correct.

I would put a design together with correct timing constraints and

make sure that your DDR3 will actually run at 533 MHz and meet timing.

You might also want to get an Arria V devkit and try to run your design on it.