I.MX6DL DDR Stress Test Hangs or Fails

mukelarvin · ‎01-20-2015

I am trying to run the DDR Stress Test on four samples of our custom board with no success. This is our first DDR3 board so I was hoping someone might be able to help me.

Hardware:

I.MX6DL 1 GHz

MT41K128M16JT-125 XIT (4 chips totalling 1 GB)

Software:

DDR Stress Tester Version 1.0.3

I.MX6DQSDL DDR3 Script Aid V0.10

It always hangs on the DQS gating read/write delay calibration, on all four boards. Any ideas as to where I should start?

mukelarvin · ‎04-30-2015

We were able to pass the stress test by cranking the System ODT Settings up to 120 ohms.

Also, almost all of the boards boot into the Android OS now. The board we used as a reference design was the iMX6solo RIoTboard from Embest. In our design we switched to the iMX6DL but continued using the code base for the RIoTboard, modifying it to suit our board. I switched over to the code base for the SabreSD reference design and now almost all the boards we boot into the Android OS successfully.

Of course, we now have some new problems but I'll save those for a new topic as these issues are solved.

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mukelarvin · ‎04-30-2015

We were able to pass the stress test by cranking the System ODT Settings up to 120 ohms.

Also, almost all of the boards boot into the Android OS now. The board we used as a reference design was the iMX6solo RIoTboard from Embest. In our design we switched to the iMX6DL but continued using the code base for the RIoTboard, modifying it to suit our board. I switched over to the code base for the SabreSD reference design and now almost all the boards we boot into the Android OS successfully.

Of course, we now have some new problems but I'll save those for a new topic as these issues are solved.

chuanyanyin · ‎03-09-2015

I have same problem, But when use mx6Q, every thing is fine, So, is the problem of 6DL?

mylzc · ‎03-09-2015

Hi Chuanyan, my reference board is Mars board which uses mx6d and can do calibrations well. My own board was designed based on Mars but replaced the core by 6DL. Is your situation similar to mine?

chuanyanyin · ‎03-09-2015

Yes, My design work well in mx6q, But when I use 6dl, ddr test would fail. I think there are 2 causes, First is CPU.6DL, Second is SMT, Maybe you should check SMT's problem.

mylzc · ‎03-09-2015

Did you modify the script to cater for 6DL?

Yes, I agreed that it is most likely caused by SMT or layout issue. But my board can do DDR test in low frequency so at least I can confirm the Pins are connected? I am trying to find out any other possible reason.

chuanyanyin · ‎03-09-2015

Hi Zhichen Li

Can I have you QQ? or skype?

mylzc · ‎03-09-2015

Hi Luke Marvinand and Craig Comberbach, is your problem solved? Are you confirmed it is a layout issue?

My problem is quite similar to yours, it hangs on the DQS gating read/write delay calibration though the first Write leveling calibration is OK. Once the DQS calibration started, my device lost its connection with PC.

If I bypass the calibration and do test directly, the DDR can only run on 200M+ Hz.

Any reply is appreciated.

craigcomberbach · ‎03-19-2015

We reordered the boards from a different manufacturer and we used tin-lead solder paste instead of lead free. We still used a lead-free process so that the balls of the BGA would reflow correctly. We went from having a yield of 16% working, to a yield of 57%. We believe there are further issues with the way the board was panelized that made it more difficult to build that is accounting for the lower than expected yield.

Even though 57% are running and behaving as expected, they all failed the DDR3 stress test. To fix that, Luke systematically adjusted the numbers of the DDR3 script and managed to get the boards passing the DDR3 stress test. I would suggest looking here and confirming the numbers you enter.

mylzc · ‎03-20-2015

Many thanks for your kindly reply. My understanding is

1. As you can see your low yield problem is mainly caused by manufacturer's process.

2. Your stress test problem is caused by the wrong numbers setting in calibration script. May I ask which values Luke adjusted?

3. You did not mention the DQS gating hang issue, how did you pass this?

Look forward to your reply.

craigcomberbach · ‎03-20-2015

We aren't totally convinced it is a manufacturing issue, or at least we are trying to rule out all other possibilities. We have several boards that pass the DDR3 Stress Test, but fail to boot fully, usually hanging near the end. I am slowly but surely eliminating them first, as it is really expensive to reorder the boards to fix the manufacturing issues, only to find out that the yields are still low.

Luke fiddled with the impedance values in the SI configuration section. The values he finally hit upon that made everything work were later validated by a response from Lin Wang (The maker of the DDR3 Script Aid spreadsheet). I was assuming I needed to enter the 100 ohms impedance of the differential pair, not realizing that they were in parallel and so they were actually 50 ohms. All of the settings were changed to 48 ohms (closest available option) except for the System ODT setting which is set to 120 ohms. I don't know why 120 ohms works and nothing lower does...

I don't know if Luke did anything specific about the DQS hanging issue, though my impression is that it fixed itself when we changed the impedance settings.

Yuri · ‎01-20-2015

Please look at some hints below.

1.
Please try to decrease memory frequency, using memory type (Script Aid),
another than “DDR3-1600”.

2.

Please check PCB design regarding DDR signals, using Chapter 3 (i.MX 6 Series

Layout Recommendations) of the “Hardware Development Guide for i.MX 6Quad,

6Dual, 6DualLite, 6Solo Families …”

http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/user_guide/IMX6DQ6SDLHDG.pdf

In particular, please use to Excel page named “MX6 DRAM Bus Length Check” in

“HW Design Checking List for i.Mx6”, linked below.

https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-93819

3.
You may try to skip the calibration phase in order to check if further

tests can be passed.

4.
Please try to use WALAT = 1 in memory initialization script.

Have a great day,
Yuri

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mukelarvin · ‎01-22-2015

I tried doing the following:

Using a different PC.
Changing the memory type to DDR3-800. (400MHz is already the lowest clock frequency in the sheet.)
Using WALAT = 1.

... with no success.

My hardware guy assures me that he designed the board to the specifications of the hardware guides.

One of our boards can fully boot into android, two have a segmentation fault when starting the Zygote process, and the last board hangs on Freeing init memory: 260K.

To me that sounds like a hardware problem with the memory.

Logcat of a board with segfault:

--------- beginning of /dev/log/system
I/Vold    ( 2080): Vold 2.1 (the revenge) firing up
D/Vold    ( 2080): Volume extsd state changing -1 (Initializing) -> 0 (No-Media)
D/Vold    ( 2080): Volume udisk state changing -1 (Initializing) -> 0 (No-Media)
--------- beginning of /dev/log/main
I/AudioFlinger( 4570): loadHwModule() Loaded usb audio interface from USB audio HW HAL (audio) handle 3
E/AudioPolicyManagerBase( 4570): Not output found for attached devices 00000002
E/AudioPolicyManagerBase( 4570): Failed to open primary output
E/AudioPolicyManagerBase( 4570): getDeviceForStrategy() speaker device not found for STRATEGY_SONIFICATION
E/AudioPolicyManagerBase( 4570): getDeviceForStrategy() speaker device not found for STRATEGY_SONIFICATION
E/AudioPolicyService( 4570): couldn't init_check the audio policy (No such device)
D/AndroidRuntime( 4569): 
D/AndroidRuntime( 4569): >>>>>> AndroidRuntime START com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit <<<<<<
D/AndroidRuntime( 4569): CheckJNI is ON
I/AndroidRuntime( 4569): JNI options: '-Xjniopts:warnonly'
D/dalvikvm( 4569): Trying to load lib libjavacore.so 0x0
D/dalvikvm( 4569): Added shared lib libjavacore.so 0x0
D/dalvikvm( 4569): Trying to load lib libnativehelper.so 0x0
D/dalvikvm( 4569): Added shared lib libnativehelper.so 0x0
D/dalvikvm( 4569): No JNI_OnLoad found in libnativehelper.so 0x0, skipping init
D/dalvikvm( 4569): Note: class Landroid/app/ActivityManagerNative; has 179 unimplemented (abstract) methods
E/memtrack( 4569): Couldn't load memtrack module (No such file or directory)
E/android.os.Debug( 4569): failed to load memtrack module: -2
I/SamplingProfilerIntegration( 4569): Profiling disabled.
I/Zygote  ( 4569): Preloading classes...
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 39K, 8% free 520K/564K, paused 0ms+0ms, total 16ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 3K, 4% free 596K/616K, paused 0ms+1ms, total 31ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 16K, 3% free 640K/660K, paused 1ms+0ms, total 18ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 20K, 4% free 674K/696K, paused 1ms+0ms, total 15ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 10K, 2% free 718K/732K, paused 0ms+1ms, total 15ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 27K, 4% free 746K/776K, paused 0ms+1ms, total 15ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 35K, 5% free 816K/856K, paused 0ms+0ms, total 15ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 29K, 4% free 843K/876K, paused 0ms+0ms, total 16ms
D/TextLayoutCache( 4569): Using debug level = 0 - Debug Enabled = 0
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 19K, 3% free 884K/908K, paused 0ms+0ms, total 16ms
I/dalvikvm( 4569): threadid=1: recursive native library load attempt (/system/lib/libmedia_jni.so)
D/MtpDeviceJNI( 4569): register_android_mtp_MtpDevice
I/dalvikvm( 4569): threadid=1: recursive native library load attempt (/system/lib/libmedia_jni.so)
I/dalvikvm( 4569): threadid=1: recursive native library load attempt (/system/lib/libmedia_jni.so)
I/dalvikvm( 4569): threadid=1: recursive native library load attempt (/system/lib/libmedia_jni.so)
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 19K, 3% free 920K/940K, paused 0ms+1ms, total 17ms
D/dalvikvm( 4569): GC_EXPLICIT freed 21K, 3% free 955K/980K, paused 0ms+1ms, total 16ms
F/libc    ( 4569): Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0x00000008 (code=1), thread 4569 (zygote)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): Build fingerprint: 'Freescale/RIoTboard_6solo/RIoTboard_6solo:4.4.2/1.0.0-rc3/20140630:eng/dev-keys'
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): Revision: '397329'
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): pid: 4569, tid: 4569, name: zygote  >>> zygote <<<
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 00000008
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     r0 41876dc8  r1 400533f8  r2 00000000  r3 00000001
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     r4 00000000  r5 80000000  r6 4185e1e8  r7 00000000
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     d16 0000005b00000041  d17 000000600000005f
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     d20 0000000100000001  d21 0000000100000001
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     scr 60000010
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): 
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): backtrace:
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #00  pc 00037244  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #01  pc 00037404  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #02  pc 00028ef8  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmHeapBitmapScanWalk(HeapBitmap*, void (*)(Object*, void*, void*), void*)+100)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #03  pc 00037784  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmHeapScanMarkedObjects()+44)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #04  pc 000293dc  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmCollectGarbageInternal(GcSpec const*)+348)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #05  pc 00055b07  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmCollectGarbage()+30)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #06  pc 00026fe0  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #07  pc 0002dfa0  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmMterpStd(Thread*)+76)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #08  pc 0002b638  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmInterpret(Thread*, Method const*, JValue*)+184)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #09  pc 00060581  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmCallMethodV(Thread*, Method const*, Object*, bool, JValue*, std::__va_list)+336)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #10  pc 00049d0b  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #11  pc 0003cded  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #12  pc 0004ce4f  /system/lib/libandroid_runtime.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #13  pc 0004db73  /system/lib/libandroid_runtime.so (android::AndroidRuntime::start(char const*, char const*)+354)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #14  pc 0000105b  /system/bin/app_process
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #15  pc 0000e423  /system/lib/libc.so (__libc_init+50)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #16  pc 00000d7c  /system/bin/app_process
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): 
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): stack:
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b52c  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b530  4184a5bd  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b534  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b538  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b53c  bea3b520  [stack]
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b540  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b544  00000001  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b548  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b54c  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b550  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b554  400533f8  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b558  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b55c  80000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b560  4185f0e0  /dev/ashmem/dalvik-zygote (deleted)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b564  417e324c  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #00  bea3b568  41876dc8  /dev/ashmem/dalvik-zygote (deleted)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b56c  4185b1f0  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b570  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b574  400533f8  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b578  80000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b57c  417e3408  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #01  bea3b580  41876d00  /dev/ashmem/dalvik-zygote (deleted)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b584  00000634  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b588  0000018e  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b58c  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b590  400534c4  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b594  417d4efc  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmHeapBitmapScanWalk(HeapBitmap*, void (*)(Object*, void*, void*), void*)+104)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):     #02  bea3b598  00000000  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b59c  41876d00  /dev/ashmem/dalvik-zygote (deleted)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b5a0  00004000  
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b5a8  400533f8  
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b5ac  402500c0  /system/lib/libcutils.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b5b0  4185b1f0  /system/lib/libdvm.so
I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b5b4  40250028  /system/lib/libcutils.so
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082):          bea3b5c4  417e3788  /system/lib/libdvm.so (dvmHeapScanMarkedObjects()+48)
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): 
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): memory near r0:
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I/DEBUG   ( 2082): 
I/DEBUG   ( 2082): memory near r1:
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woutersintecs · ‎01-23-2015

Hi Luke,

Is your DDR3 design checked for Signal Integrity and has the iMX6DL DDR3 Timing been verified?

Regards Wouter Stapper

craigcomberbach · ‎01-23-2015

I am the hardware guy that Luke mentioned. This is not only our first DDR3 project, it is also our first hi-speed project, our first 6-layer project, and our first impedance matching project. Basically, this project is very far removed from our typical designs.

Unfortunately the way the DDR3 was laid out, we do not have easy access to most of the traces, so we have not been able to directly check the Signal Integrity or Timing. However, as Luke mentioned, I followed the DDR routing rules (Section 3.4) of the Hardware Development Guide very closely. Length tuning is within the the specified tolerances as of each stage of the branching.

I have two main concerns, the first is that we used a lead free process and I have seen some questionable solder joints on some of the boards. I have reflowed the ones that had questionable solder joints, but it has not helped. The second concern is that the individual traces were impedance matched to 100 or 50 ohms (depending on if it was a differential or single ended trace) that does not take into account the branching that is taking place. I had used a 12-layer reference design, but converted it to a 6-layer design. I believe the original design took the branching into account and the layer for those traces were adjusted to keep the impedance the same. The design has the Address/Command/Control lines branching twice (for the 4 chips) and the clock lines branching once.

woutersintecs · ‎01-26-2015

Hi Craig,

This '12 layer to 6 layer' conversion is a risk. Are you sure that all DDR traces have the correct impedance? Is the stack up confirmed with your PCB vendor?

You might consider to do a signal integrity and timing analysis of your pcb design.

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