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20 years ago

SRAM vs SDRAM

Hi, I am about to design a system with uClinux, and I was wondering if the performances would be correct if I only used an SDRAM. SRAM is a bit expensive if I want to have enough memory to run...
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19 years ago

What kind of power restrictions are you on? I persoally don't think DDR is too heavy on power... that is, without using Vtt termination. I doubt you could get to speeds high enough to require Vtt termination, unless you had multiple chips banked.

Maybe DDR2?