Hi So today we've been talking about ways around having to use DDR3/DDR4 interfaces for external memory of a potential SoC but as it turns outs, all our candidates like HyperRAM or MRAM are out of the window because of the prices. As usual I came back to the question "is it possible to do this with an AVR?" which usually helps me at fixing such problems and I came across those projects here: https://www.circuitlake.com/interfacing-dram-memory-with-avr.html https://github.com/jnk0le/AVR-DRAM Turns out that it's possible to speak to DRAM over a DDR3 without a special controller, just over GPIO. They got an Atmega to access a Hitatchi M5M44800. The RAM access will be slow, but we don't need to know about the analog properties of the process in order to achieve this. I will probably implement this for my test SoC on a CPLD. Hagen will explain more in the follow up/minutes.
Cheers -lev
On Saturday, July 17, 2021 11:49:14 AM WEST Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
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