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19 years ago

Design consideration help - Memory tester

Hello, I was hoping you could just review my design plan and tell me any relavent tips or lessons learned you might have. My board will have on chip memory, SDRAM and Flash. I'd like to...
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19 years ago

Excellent point about the DMA. Yes, the memory interface should be tested fully as well.

the other half of the testing should be to fully test each individual bit in memory, which obviously isn't possible if I bootload into the SDRAM. So does the multi-program approach where the memory tester is loaded into on-chip memory make sense?

Regards,

Kevin