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82925X/82925XE MCH Datasheet 17
1.3.2 System Memory Interface
The MCH integrates a system memory DDR2 controller with two, 64-bit wide interfaces. Only
Double Data Rate (DDR2) memory is supported; consequently, the buffers support only
SSTL_1.8 V signal interfaces. The memory controller interface is fully configurable through a set
of control registers. Features of the MCH memory controller include:
• The MCH System Memory Controller directly supports one or two channels of memory
(each channel consisting of 64 data lines).
• Supports two memory addressing organization options:
⎯ The memory channels are asymmetric: "Stacked" channels are assigned addresses
serially. Channel B addresses are assigned after all Channel A addresses.
⎯ The memory channels are interleaved: Addresses are ping-ponged between the channels
after each cache line (64-B boundary).
• Available bandwidth up to:
⎯ 3.2 GB/s (DDR2 400) for single-channel mode
⎯ 6.4 GB/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR2 400 MHz.
⎯ 8.5 GB/s in dual-channel interleaved mode assuming DDR2 533 MHz.
• Supports DDR2 memory DIMM frequencies of 400 MHz and 533 MHz. The speed used in
all channels is the speed of the slowest DIMM in the system.
• I/O Voltage of 1.8 V for DDR2.
• I/O Voltage of 1.9 V for DDR2 533 MHz CL3-3-3.
• Supports non-ECC and ECC (925X only) memory.
• Supports 256-Mb, 512-Mb and 1-Gb DDR2 technologies
• Supports only x8, x16, DDR2 devices with four banks and also supports eight bank,
1-Gbit DDR2 devices.
• Supports opportunistic refresh
• In dual channel mode the MCH supports 64 simultaneously open pages (four ranks of eight
bank devices* 2 channels)
• Supports Partial Writes to memory using Data Mask (DM) signals.
• Supports page sizes of 4 KB, 8 KB, and 16 KB.
• Supports a burst length of 8 for single-channel and dual-channel interleaved and asymmetric
operating modes.
• Supports unbuffered DIMMs.
• SPD (Serial Presence Detect) scheme for DIMM detection support
• Suspend-to-RAM support using CKE
• Supports configurations defined in the JEDEC DDR2 DIMM specification only
The MCH supports a memory thermal management scheme to selectively manage reads and/or
writes. Memory thermal management can be triggered either by on-die thermal sensor, or by
preset limits. Management limits are determined by weighted sum of various commands that are
scheduled on the memory interface.
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