Intel® 82854 Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)

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Activate to Precharge delay (tRAS), MAX:

 

This bit controls the maximum number of clocks that a DDR SDRAM bank can remain open. After

 

this time period, the system memory Controller will guarantee to pre-charge the bank. Note that

 

this time period may or may not be set to overlap with time period that requires a refresh to

 

happen.

 

 

The DDR SDRAM Controller includes a separate tRAS-MAX counter for every supported bank.

 

With a maximum of four rows and four banks per row, there are 16 counters.

 

0:

120 micro-seconds

 

1: Reserved.

 

 

 

10:9

Activate to Precharge delay (tRAS), MIN:

 

This bit controls the number of DDR SDRAM clocks for tRAS MIN

 

00:

8 Clocks

 

 

01:

7 Clocks

 

 

10:

6 Clocks

 

 

11:

5 Clocks

 

 

 

 

8:7

Reserved

 

 

 

6:5

CAS# Latency (tCL):

 

Encoding

DDR SDRAM CL

 

00:

 

2.5

 

01:

 

2

 

10:

 

Reserved

 

11:

 

Reserved

 

 

 

4

Reserved

 

 

 

3:2

DDR SDRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD): This bit controls the number of clocks inserted

 

between a Row Activate command and a Read or Write command to that row.

 

Encoding

tRCD

 

00:

 

4 DDR SDRAM Clocks (DDR 333 SDRAM)

 

01:

 

3 DDR SDRAM Clocks

 

10:

 

2 DDR SDRAM Clocks

 

11:

 

Reserved

 

 

1:0

DDR SDRAM RAS# Precharge (tRP): This bit controls the number of clocks that are inserted

 

between a row precharge command and an activate command to the same row.

 

Encoding

tRP

 

00:

 

4 DDR SDRAM Clocks (DDR 333 SDRAM)

 

01:

 

3 DDR SDRAM Clocks

 

10:

 

2 DDR SDRAM Clocks

 

11:

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

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Intel D15343-003 Activate to Precharge delay tRAS, MAX, Activate to Precharge delay tRAS, MIN, Reserved CAS# Latency tCL