Register Description

R

3.6.24DRTC—DRAM Read Thermal Management Control Register (Device 1)

Address Offset:

58–5Fh

Default Value:

0000_0000_0000_0000h

Access:

 

R/W/L

Size:

 

64 bits

 

 

 

Bit

 

Descriptions

 

 

 

63:41

Reserved.

 

 

 

40:28

Global Read Hexword Threshold (GRHT). The thirteen-bit value held in this field is multiplied by

 

215 to arrive at the number of hexwords that must be written within the Global DRAM Read

 

Sampling Window to cause the thermal management mechanism to be invoked.

 

 

27:22

Read Thermal Management Time (RTMT). This value provides a multiplier between 0 and 63

 

that specifies how long counter-based read thermal management remains in effect as a number

 

of Global DRAM Read Sampling Windows. For example, if GDRSW is programmed to

 

1000_0000b and RTT is set to 01_0000b, then read thermal management will be performed for

 

8192*105 host clocks (@ 100 MHz) seconds once invoked (128 * 4*105 host clocks * 16).

21:15

Read Thermal Management Monitoring Window (RTMMW). The value in this register is

 

padded with four 0s to specify a window of 0–2047 host clocks with 16-clock granularity. While

 

the thermal management mechanism is invoked, system memory reads are monitored during this

 

window. If the number of hexwords read during the window reaches the Read Thermal

 

Management Hexword Maximum (bits 14:3), then read requests are blocked for the remainder of

 

the window.

 

 

 

14:3

Read Thermal Management Hexword Maximum (RTMHM). This field defines the maximum

 

number of hexwords between 0–4095 that are permitted to be read from system memory within

 

one Read Thermal Management Monitoring Window.

 

 

2:1

Read Thermal Management Mode (RTMMode).

 

00 = Thermal management via counters and Hardware Thermal Management_on signal

 

mechanisms disabled.

 

 

01 = Hardware Thermal Management_on signal mechanism is enabled. In this mode, as long as

 

the Thermal Management_on signal is asserted, read thermal management is in effect

 

based on the settings in RTMW and RTHM. When the Thermal Management_on signal is

 

deasserted, read thermal management stops and the counters associated with the RTMW

 

and RTHM are reset. When the hardware Thermal Management_on signal mechanism is

 

not enabled, the Thermal Management_on signal has no effects.

 

10 = Counter mechanism controlled through GDRSW and GRHT is enabled. When the threshold

 

set in GDRSW and GRHT is reached, thermal management start/stop cycles occur based

 

on the settings in RTT, RTMW and RTHM.

 

11 = Reserved.

 

 

 

0

START Read Thermal Management (SRTM). Software writes to this bit to start and stop read

 

thermal management.

 

 

0 = Read thermal management stops and the counters associated with RTMW and RTHM are

 

reset.

 

 

1 = Read thermal management begins based on the settings in RTMW and RTHM, and remains

 

to be in effect until this bit is reset to 0.

 

 

 

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