External Memory Interfaces Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 12/19/2023
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7.3.1.2. DIMM Options

Unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMMs) require one set of chip-select (CS#), on-die termination (ODT), clock-enable (CKE), and clock pair (CK/CKn) for every physical rank on the DIMM. Registered DIMMs use only one pair of clocks. DDR3 registered DIMMs require a minimum of two chip-select signals, while DDR4 requires only one.

Compared to the unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMM), registered and load-reduced DIMMs (RDIMMs and LRDIMMs, respectively) use at least two chip-select signals CS#[1:0] in DDR3 and DDR4 . Both RDIMMs and LRDIMMs require an additional parity signal for address, RAS#, CAS#, and WE# signals. A parity error signal is asserted by the module whenever a parity error is detected.

LRDIMMs expand on the operation of RDIMMs by buffering the DQ/DQS bus. Only one electrical load is presented to the controller regardless of the number of ranks, therefore only one clock enable (CKE) and ODT signal are required for LRDIMMs, regardless of the number of physical ranks. Because the number of physical ranks may exceed the number of physical chip-select signals, DDR3 LRDIMMs provide a feature known as rank multiplication, which aggregates two or four physical ranks into one larger logical rank. Refer to LRDIMM buffer documentation for details on rank multiplication.

Table 262.  UDIMM, RDIMM, and LRDIMM Pin Options for DDR4
Pins UDIMM Pins (Single Rank) UDIMM Pins (Dual Rank) RDIMM Pins (Single Rank) RDIMM Pins (Dual Rank) LRDIMM Pins (Dual Rank) LRDIMM Pins (Quad Rank)
Data

72 bit DQ[71:0]=

{CB[7:0],

DQ[63:0]}

72 bit DQ[71:0]=

{CB[7:0],

DQ[63:0]}

72 bit DQ[71:0]=

{CB[7:0],

DQ[63:0]}

72 bit DQ[71:0]=

{CB[7:0],

DQ[63:0]}

72 bit DQ[71:0]=

{CB[7:0],

DQ[63:0]}

72 bit DQ[71:0]=

{CB[7:0],

DQ[63:0]}

Data Mask DM#/DBI#[8:0] (1) DM#/DBI#[8:0] (1) DM#/DBI#[8:0] (1) DM#/DBI#[8:0] (1)
Data Strobe x8: DQS[8:0] and DQS#[8:0] x8: DQS[8:0] and DQS#[8:0] x8: DQS[8:0] and DQS#[8:0] x4: DQS[17:0] and DQS#[17:0] x8: DQS[8:0] and DQS#[8:0] x4: DQS[17:0] and DQS#[17:0] x4: DQS[17:0] and DQS#[17:0] x4: DQS[17:0] and DQS#[17:0]
Address

BA[1:0], BG[1:0], A[16:0] -

4GB: A[14:0]

8GB: A[15:0]

16GB: A[16:0] (2)

BA[1:0], BG[1:0], A[16:0] -

8GB: A[14:0]

16GB: A[15:0]

32GB: A[16:0] (2)

BA[1:0], BG[1:0], x8: A[16:0] -

4GB: A[14:0]

8GB: A[15:0]

16GB: A[16:0] (2)

32GB: A[17:0] (3)

BA[1:0], BG[1:0],x8: A[16:0] x4: A[17:0] -

8GB: A[14:0]

16GB: A[15:0]

32GB: A[16:0] (2)

64GB: A[17:0] (3)

BA[1:0], BG[1:0], A[17:0] -

16GB: A[15:0]

32GB: A[16:0] (2)

64GB: A[17:0] (3)

BA[1:0], BG[1:0], A[17:0] -

32GB: A[15:0]

64GB: A[16:0] (2)

128GB: A[17:0] (3)

Clock CK0/CK0# CK0/CK0#, CK1/CK1# CK0/CK0# CK0/CK0# CK0/CK0# CK0/CK0#
Command ODT, CS#, CKE, ACT#, RAS#/A16, CAS#/A15, WE#/A14 ODT[1:0], CS#[1:0], CKE[1:0], ACT#, RAS#/A16, CAS#/A15, WE#/A14 ODT, CS#, CKE, ACT#, RAS#/A16, CAS#/A15, WE#/A14 ODT[1:0], CS#[1:0], CKE, ACT#, RAS#/A16, CAS#/A15, WE#/A14 ODT, CS#[1:0], CKE, ACT#, RAS#/A16, CAS#/A15, WE#/A14 ODT, CS#[3:0], CKE, ACT#, RAS#/A16, CAS#/A15, WE#/A14
Parity PAR, ALERT# PAR, ALERT# PAR, ALERT# PAR, ALERT# PAR, ALERT# PAR, ALERT#
Other Pins SA[2:0], SDA, SCL, EVENT#, RESET# SA[2:0], SDA, SCL, EVENT#, RESET# SA[2:0], SDA, SCL, EVENT#, RESET# SA[2:0], SDA, SCL, EVENT#, RESET# SA[2:0], SDA, SCL, EVENT#, RESET# SA[2:0], SDA, SCL, EVENT#, RESET#

Notes to Table:

  1. DM/DBI pins are available only for DIMMs constructed using x8 or greater components.
  2. This density requires 4Gb x4 or 2Gb x8 DRAM components.
  3. This density requires 8Gb x4 DRAM components.
  4. This table assumes a single slot configuration. The Intel® Arria® 10 memory controller can support up to 4 ranks per channel. A single slot interface may have up to 4 ranks, and a dual slot interface may have up to 2 ranks per slot. In either case, the total number of ranks, calculated as the number of slots multiplied by the number of ranks per slot, must be less than or equal to 4.