topic Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board in i.MX Processors

ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

kr90911 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:24:17 GMT

Hi,All

We made some custom board with IMX6UL chip and MT41K64M16-125 SDRAM,and encountered problems while doing ddr calibration on board by ddr_stress_tester_v3.00. There are calibration log as follow:

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Boot Configuration
SRC_SBMR1(0x020d8004) = 0x00000870
SRC_SBMR2(0x020d801c) = 0x02000001
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ARM Clock set to 528MHz

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DDR configuration
DDR type is DDR3
Data width: 16, bank num: 8
Row size: 13, col size: 10
Chip select CSD0 is used
Density per chip select: 128MB
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Current Temperature: 32
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DDR Freq: 396 MHz

ddr_mr1=0x00000000
Start write leveling calibration...
running Write level HW calibration
MPWLHWERR register read out for factory diagnostics:
MPWLHWERR PHY0 = 0x00000087
HW WL cal status: no suitable delay value found for byte 1
Write leveling calibration completed but failed, the following results were found:
MMDC_MPWLDECTRL0 ch0 (0x021b080c) = 0x001F0000
Write DQS delay result:
Write DQS0 delay: 0/256 CK
Write DQS1 delay: 31/256 CK

Error: failed during write leveling calibration

The script I used can make calibration success on official board IMX6ULEVK.

Hope you can give me some advice about what happen to my board.

Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

igorpadykov — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:21:38 GMT

Hi west

this may be caused by hardware, suggest to check it with oscilloscope using

Hardware Development Guide for the i.MX 6UltraLite Applications Processor

Best regards
igor
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Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

kr90911 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:34:13 GMT

Hi,igor

Thank for your response.

I captured a signal showed as followed when ddr test tool doing calibration.

The signal from DRAM SD_CLK0P:

The signal from SDQS0P and SDQS1P:

I think calibration failed because delay time of SDQS1 as log showed before.

Is there any possible way to fix delay time of SDQS1?

Thanks and best regards.

Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

kr90911 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 07:30:52 GMT

Hi all,

I measured some pin with oscilloscope showed as follow:

DRAM_SDCKE0= 0V
DRAM_SDCKE1=   0V,when doing calibration it came to 1.37V for about 16ms.
DRAM_VREF=        0.68V
DRAM_1V35=         1.37V
DRAM_RESET_B= 0V
XTALI=                    22.5MHz
RTCXTALI=             33.3kHz

DRAM_RESET_B was always be 0V when downloading script or doing calibration.

If I am not misunderstanding,according to Hardware Development Guide for the i.MX 6UltraLite Applications Processor ,

DRAM_RESET_B should go High when board getting calibration.

I'll keep finding how the bug comes up.

If someone know how to deal with it,leave some comment,please.

Thanks.

Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

kr90911 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 01:23:10 GMT

Hi,igor.

Thanks for your support.

I found some detail about this issue.

I hope you can look at this.

Thanks.

Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

igorpadykov — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:10:49 GMT

one can try to write/read to memory with jtag checking signals with

osciloscope. Use jesd79 jedec ddr3 specificaton for signal description.

Best regards
igor

Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

kr90911 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:36:18 GMT

Hi,igor.

Thanks for your reply.

I just retest DRAM_RESET_B and foud it goes High when the script downloaded in board.

I ran Memory Read/Write function and it worked,logs showed as below:

0x0 0x4 0x8 0xC
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0x80000000: 0xE75BEBF7 0xD3FEEBBF 0xAD779B7C 0xAF66D3EE
0x80000010: 0x40A34A96 0xF55ECBC2 0xE6FCEFD4
0x80000020: 0xFDB055AE 0x176FBCBB 0x9BF3377F 0x9BD32ABD
0x80000030: 0xA4B5E7A5 0x658BE9EF 0x5ABB639E 0x1F9FDFF6
0x80000040: 0xFC799FBF 0xDFE55F2B 0xEEAC9DB9 0xB8FE8912
0x80000050: 0xB7FEC9CC 0xBDDEAAFF 0xE8BFDF6E 0xD7BB75FD
0x80000060: 0xB4819552 0x87FE8117 0xC7DFF563 0xA57A84FD
0x80000070: 0x773619BA 0xFF2F6778 0x7FFFFFFD 0xBD35FFB7
memory read is done
addr=0x80000000,data=0xE75BEBF8
Success to write address 0x80000000
0x0 0x4 0x8 0xC
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0x80000000: 0xE75BEBF8 0xD3FEEBBF 0xF6BE6DB5
0x80000020: 0xFDB055AE 0x176FBCBB 0x9BF3377F 0x9BD32ABD
0x80000030: 0xA4B5E7A5 0x658BE9EF 0x5ABB639E 0x1F9FDFF6
0x80000040: 0xFC799FBF 0xDFE55F2B 0xEEAC9DB9 0xB8FE8912
0x80000050: 0xB7FEC9CC 0xBDDEAAFF 0xE8BFDF6E 0xD7BB75FD
0x80000060: 0xB4819552 0x87FE8117 0xC7DFF563 0xA57A84FD
0x80000070: 0x773619BA 0xFF2F6778 0x7FFFFFFD 0xBD35FFB7
memory read is done

Memory read and write is work,but ddr calibration still failed.

Re: ddr3 calibration error with IMX6UL custom board

kr90911 — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 02:46:44 GMT

Hi,all.

The problem solved after I replace the ddr3 density from 128 to 256 MB.