Intel® IXP45X and Intel® IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors—General Hardware Design Considerations

Table 3.

Soft Fusible Features

 

 

 

 

Name

Description

 

 

 

 

PCI

The complete bus must be enabled or disable.

 

 

 

 

HSS0/1

Can only be disable as a pair.

 

 

 

 

UTOPIA

If enabling UTOPIA, MACs on NPE A are disabled.

 

If enabling MACs on NPE A, UTOPIA are disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ETHERNET

Can Enable either MII MACs or SMII MACs, but not both at the same time. Enable of MACs

 

can be separately done per each NPE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

USB Host

Each USB can be Enable separately.

 

 

 

 

USB Device

Each USB can be Enable separately.

 

 

 

 

DDR ECC

DDR can be disabled separately form the rest of the DDR interface.

 

 

 

3.2DDR-266 SDRAM Interface

The IXP45X/IXP46X network processors support unbuffered, DDR-266 SDRAM technology, capable of addressing two memory banks (one bank per CS). Each bank can be configured to support 32/64/128/256/512-Mbyte for a total combined memory support of 1 Gbyte.

The device supports non-ECC and ECC for error correction, which can be enable or disable by software as required. Banks have a bus width of 32 bits for non ECC or 40 bits for ECC enable (32-bit data + 8-bit ECC).

For a complete feature list, see the Intel® IXP45X and Intel® IXP46X Product Line of Network Processors Datasheet.

General DDR SDRAM routing guidelines can be found in Section 7.1.7, “Routing Guidelines” on page 88. For more detailed information, see the PC266 DDR SDRAM specification.

3.2.1Signal Interface

Table 4.

DDR SDRAM Interface Pin Description (Sheet 1 of 2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Input

 

VTT

 

Name

 

Outpu

Device-Pin Connection

Terminatio

Description

 

 

t

 

n

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connect a pair of differential clock

 

 

DDRI_CK[2:0]

 

O

signals to every device; When

 

DDR SDRAM Clock Out — Provides the positive

 

using both banks, daisy chain

No

differential clocks to the external SDRAM

 

 

 

devices with same data bit

 

memory subsystem.

 

 

 

sequence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DDR SDRAM Clock Out — Provides the

DDRI_CK_N[2:0]

 

O

Same as above

No

negative differential clocks to the external

 

 

 

 

 

SDRAM memory subsystem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use the same CS to control 32-bit

 

Chip Select — Must be asserted for all

DDRI_CS_N[1:0]

 

O

Yes

transactions to the DDR SDRAM device. One

 

data + 8-bit ECC, per bank

 

 

 

 

per bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The RAS signal must be connected

 

Row Address Strobe — Indicates that the

DDRI_RAS_N

 

O

to each device in a daisy chain

Yes

 

current address on DDRI_MA[13:0] is the row.

 

 

 

manner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The CAS signal must be connected

 

Column Address Strobe — Indicates that the

DDRI_CAS_N

 

O

to each device in a daisy chain

Yes

current address on DDRI_MA[13:0] is the

 

 

 

manner

 

column.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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