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19 years agoDDR termination resistors
I am looking for a document that describes how to compute resistor values for DDR SDRAM termination, both serial and paralel.
At the moment I use the same termination values as on the nios development board cyclone ii edition (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-nios-2c35.html). Serial terminations (near the Cyclone chip) are: 10ohm for DQ15..0 and both DQS signals 24ohm for address and control signals Parallel terminations (at the traces end) are: 56ohm for all signals Are this values computed according to the trace impedance? The Altera board probably uses a multilayer board with stripline traces, in which case the trace impedance can be round 56ohm. The Cyclone II documentation describes SSTL-2 pins to have 50ohm serial impedance. For details see cyclone ii documentation (http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-cyc2.jsp) at pages: 2-57 (83 of 448) 5-12 (114 of 448) I computed the trace impedance for my 4-layer board (Microstrip traces) to be 82.8ohm. I used the zcalc (http://www.jnicolle.com/?page=lvds) software. Termination on the development board seems to be SSTL-2 Class I. The Jedec standard specifies a 25ohm serial resistor and a 50ohm paralel resistor. For detail see cyclone ii documentation (http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-cyc2.jsp) at pages: 10-8 (274 of 448) Final Questions: 1. What serial and parallel resistor values should I use? 2. How should I compute this values. iztok jeras