MOSEL VITELIC
Power On and Initialization
The default power on state of the mode register is
supplier specific and may be undefined. The
following power on and initialization sequence
guarantees the device is preconditioned to each
users specific needs. Like a conventional DRAM,
the Synchronous DRAM must be powered up and
initialized in a predefined manner. During power on,
all VCC and VCCQ pins must be built up
simultaneously to the specified voltage when the
input signals are held in the “NOP” state. The power
on voltage must not exceed VCC+0.3V on any of
the input pins or VCC supplies. The CLK signal
must be started at the same time. After power on,
an initial pause of 200
µ
s is required followed by a
precharge of both banks using the precharge
command. To prevent data contention on the DQ
bus during power on, it is required that the DQM and
CKE pins be held high during the initial pause
period. Once all banks have been precharged, the
Mode Register Set Command must be issued to
initialize the Mode Register. A minimum of eight
Auto Refresh cycles (CBR) are also required.These
may be done before or after programming the Mode
Register. Failure to follow these steps may lead to
unpredictable start-up modes.
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register is set, a Standby or NOP command is re-
quired. Low signals of RAS, CAS, and WE at the
positive edge of the clock activate the mode set op-
eration. Address input data at this timing defines pa-
rameters to be set as shown in the previous table.
Read and Write Operation
When RAS is low and both CAS and WE are high
at the positive edge of the clock, a RAS cycle starts.
According to address data, a word line of the select-
ed bank is activated and all of sense amplifiers as-
sociated to the wordline are set. A CAS cycle is
triggered by setting RAS high and CAS low at a
clock timing after a necessary delay, t
RCD
, from the
RAS timing. WE is used to define either a read
(WE = H) or a write (WE = L) at this stage.
SDRAM provides a wide variety of fast access
modes. In a single CAS cycle, serial data read or
write operations are allowed at up to a 125 MHz
data rate. The numbers of serial data bits are the
burst length programmed at the mode set opera-
tion, i.e., one of 1, 2, 4, 8 and full page. Column ad-
dresses are segmented by the burst length and
serial data accesses are done within this boundary.
The first column address to be accessed is supplied
at the CAS timing and the subsequent addresses
are generated automatically by the programmed
burst length and its sequence. For example, in a
burst length of 8 with interleave sequence, if the first
address is ‘2’, then the rest of the burst sequence is
3, 0, 1, 6, 7, 4, and 5.
Full page burst operation is only possible using
the sequential burst type and page length is a func-
tion of the I/O organisation and column addressing.
Full page burst operation do not self terminate once
the burst length has been reached. In other words,
unlike burst length of 2, 3 or 8, full page burst con-
tinues until it is terminated using another command.
Programming the Mode Register
The Mode register designates the operation
mode at the read or write cycle. This register is di-
vided into 4 fields. A Burst Length Field to set the
length of the burst, an Addressing Selection bit to
program the column access sequence in a burst cy-
cle (interleaved or sequential), a CAS
Latency
Field
to set the access time at clock cycle and a Opera-
tion mode field to differentiate between normal op-
eration (Burst read and burst Write) and a special
Burst Read and Single Write mode. The mode set
operation must be done before any activate com-
mand after the initial power up. Any content of the
mode register can be altered by re-executing the
mode set command. All banks must be in pre-
charged state and CKE must be high at least one
clock before the mode set operation. After the mode
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