CL-PS7500FE
System-on-a-Chip for Internet Appliance
addresses are available as for 32-bit mode, meaning that only 32 Mbytes of DRAM is supported per bank.
Words are stored in DRAM with the upper half-word at the lower address.
CONTENTS
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0
ADDRESS
0X10000000
1111111111111111
0X10000001
When this is read, the ARM sees:
MSB
LSB
31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0000000000000000 1111111111111111
In 16-bit mode, byte reads and writes only require a single DRAM access, and the LSB of the column
address is decoded in conjunction with the nCAS[1:0] outputs to select a single byte from four. For this
reason byte reads and writes for 16-bit-wide DRAMs have the same timing as for the non-sequential 32-
bit case.
16-bit mode word accesses involve a non-sequential access for the upper halfword, followed by a sequen-
tial access for the lower half word at the next memory location. A non sequential 16-bit mode word access
thus requires 7 MEMCLK cycles, then sequential accesses can continue until a page boundary is
reached, taking two cycles for each half word.
9.2.5 DRAM Refresh
DRAM refresh is controlled by a small state machine and counter within CL-PS7500FE. The refresh inter-
val timer is clocked by a clock derived from the fixed frequency I_OCLK, and thus the refresh intervals
remain the same even if the frequency of MEMCLK is increased for use with faster DRAM. There are four
timings available for refresh, controlled by the REFCR refresh control register at address 0x0320008C.
During reset, the refresh timer is reset to the fastest value (16 µs), and the counter and state machine are
clocked such that refresh continues even during reset.
76 5 4 3 2 1 0
XXXXRRRR
R
Write
Read
Reset
refresh period
bit[3:0]
0000 refresh off
0001 16 µs
0010 32 µs
0100 64 µs
1000 128 µs
all others are undefined
return above values
set to ‘0001’ (fastest available refresh rate)
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MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS
ADVANCE DATA BOOK v2.0
June 1997