Article ID: 000076613 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 06/17/2025

Why does the EMIF Debug Toolkit report that the Stratix® 10 DDR4 CKE*, ODT*, and RESET signals are uncalibrated?

Environment

    Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
    External Memory Interfaces Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA IP
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Description

The EMIF Debug Toolkit doesn't deskew the Stratix® 10 DDR4 CKE* and ODT* signals directly because the DDR4 specification doesn't include them in the address/command parity calculation.

Resolution

In the Address / Command Margins section, the EMIF Debug Toolkit reports all the signals that could have a delay. Still, the margins are only reported on signals that are calibrated explicitly.
However, the CKE*, ODT*, and RESET signals are calibrated implicitly based on the CS* level / deskew, and therefore, their margins aren't reported.
The CKE*, ODT*, and RESET signals are programmed with the same delay setting value as the CS* signals.

Note that the character * refers to the memory rank number.

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Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs

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