SDRAM Interface Signals

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The following table lists the SDRAM interface signals.

Table 1. SDRAM Interface Signals
Signal Name Direction Description
CK Output Positive signal of differential clock pair forwarded to SDRAM.
CK_N Output Negative signal of differential clock pair forwarded to SDRAM.
RESET_N Output SDRAM reset. Supported only for DDR3 and DDR4.
A[15:0] Output Address bus. Sampled during the active, precharge, read, and write commands. Also provides the mode register value during MRS commands.

Bus width for LPDDR3 is 10 bits, DDR3 is 16 bits, and DDR4 is 14 bits.

BA[2:0] Output Bank address. Sampled during active, precharge, read, and write commands to determine which bank the command is to be applied to. Supported only for DDR3 and DDR4.

For DDR4, bus width is 2 bits.

For DDR3, bus width is 3 bits.

BG[1:0] Output DDR bank group address for DDR4 only.
CS_N Output SDRAM Chip Select (CS).
CKE Output SDRAM clock enable. Held low during initialization to ensure SDRAM DQ and DQS outputs are in the hi-Z state.
RAS_N Output SDRAM row address strobe command. Supported only for DDR3 and DDR4.
CAS_N Output SDRAM column access strobe command. Supported only for DDR3 and DDR4.
WE_N Output SDRAM write enable command. Supported only for DDR3 and DDR4.
ODT Output On-die termination control. ODT is asserted during reads and writes according to the ODT activation settings in the standalone MSS Configurator.
PAR Output Command and address parity output. Supported only for DDR4.
ALERT_N Input Alert signaling command/address parity or write CRC error. Supported only for DDR4.
DQ Bidirectional SDRAM data bus. Supports 16-bit and 32-bit DDR SDRAM data buses.
DM/DM_N Output Write data mask. DM for DDR3/LPDDR3 and DM_N for DDR4.
DQS Bidirectional Strobes data into the SDRAM devices during writes and into the DDR subsystem during reads.
DQS_N Bidirectional Complimentary DQS.
Note: SHIELD signals are not available in the MSS DDR controller because it has dedicated I/O Banks to interface with the DDR memory.