topic Re: DDR3 calibration failed in i.MX Processors

DDR3 calibration failed

letan — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 07:00:48 GMT

We designed our custom board which is using i.MX6Dual(MCIMX6D5EYM10AD) with only ONE DDR3(MT41K512M16HA)

Steps	Description
1. 32bit read/write	I can write then read the data into any random address on DDR3 exactly
2. Calibration	But when I calibrate with 528MHz, even 297MHz. It failed as the attached log
3. Calibration	Then I changed the DSE value to 34/40/48 but it failed as the same log

This is the log shows FAILED

Calibration will run at DDR frequency 528MHz. Type 'y' to continue.

If you want to run at other DDR frequency. Type 'n'

DDR Freq: 528 MHz

Would you like to run the write leveling calibration? (y/n)

Please enter the MR1 value on the initilization script

This will be re-programmed into MR1 after write leveling calibration

Enter as a 4-digit HEX value, example 0004, then hit enter

0004 You have entered: 0x0004

Start write leveling calibration

Write leveling calibration completed

MMDC_MPWLDECTRL0 ch0 after write level cal: 0x001F001F

MMDC_MPWLDECTRL1 ch0 after write level cal: 0x001F001F

Would you like to run the DQS gating, read/write delay calibration? (y/n)

Starting DQS gating calibration...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ERROR FOUND, we can't get suitable value !!!!

dram test fails for all values.

Re: DDR3 calibration failed

igorpadykov — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:03:00 GMT

Hi Le

if all other tests passed, one can skip dqs gating calibration.

This may be caused by the hardware layout causing much noise between traces.

Background can be found on

p.22 Application Note AN4467 (Rev. 0, 10/2012) "i.MX 6 Series DDR Calibration"

http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN4467.pdf

"..as a proper DQS gating delay result. For i.MX 6 Series, however, the too-early

boundary detection was occasionally found to return wrong values (of 0 or 1 delay unit) using the hardware

calibration method. In these cases, the average value automatically placed in MMDC0/1_MPDGCTRLx

is thus also wrong. If using the hardware DQS Gating calibration sequence, it is the user’s responsibility

then to take the too-late boundary value, subtract a 3/4 cycle delay value, and write it to

MMDC0/1_MPDGCTRLx."

Best regards

igor

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Re: DDR3 calibration failed

letan — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:53:23 GMT

Dear Igor,

In this case how can we booting Linux kernel or even Freescale SDK?

Re: DDR3 calibration failed

igorpadykov — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:41:53 GMT

Hi Le

yes.

Best regards

igor

Re: DDR3 calibration failed

hailiu — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:55:21 GMT

I have the same problem with the same DDR3 chip but the imx6 solo CPU. If pre-defined pattern is used, the hardware read DQS gating calibration return a hardware error, if predefined value is used, the hardware automatic calibration never stoped, that is, the HW_DG_EN bit is always 1 "1".