AMBA DDR, LPDDR, and SDR Dynamic Memory Controller DMC-340 Technical Reference Manual: 3.3.26. Chip Configuration Register

3.3.26. Chip Configuration Register

The chip_cfg<n> Register characteristics are:

Purpose

Each register sets the:

address decode for chip select <n>
bank, row, column organization of the memory device that connects to chip select <n>.

Usage constraints

Only accessible in Config or Low_power state.
The number of registers implemented is equal to the number of chip selects that a configured controller supports.

Configurations

Available in all configurations of the DMC.

Attributes

See the register summary in Table 3.1.

Figure 3.32 shows the chip_cfg<n> Register bit assignments.

Figure 3.32. chip_cfg<n> registers bit assignments

Table 3.29 shows the chip_cfg<n> Register bit assignments.

Table 3.29. chip_cfg<n> registers bit assignments

Bits	Name	Function
[31:17]	-	Read undefined, write as zero.
[16]	address_fmt<n>	Selects the memory organization as decoded from the AXI address: 0 = Row, Bank, Column (RBC) organization 1 = Bank, Row, Column (BRC) organization.
[15:8]	address_match<n>	The controller applies the address_mask<n> field to the AXI address bits, [31:24], that is awaddr[31:24] or araddr[31:24]. The controller compares the result against this field and if a match occurs then it selects memory device <n>. See Formatting from AXI address channels.
[7:0]	address_mask<n>	Controls which AXI address bits, [31:24], the DMC compares when it receives an AXI transfer: Bit [`x`] = 0 DMC excludes AXI address bit [24+`x`] from the comparison Bit [`x`] = 1 DMC includes AXI address bit [24+`x`] in the comparison.

Note

If a configured controller supports two or more memory devices then you must take care to ensure that for all AXI addresses, you program the various address_match and address_mask fields so that the controller can only assert a single memory chip select. Otherwise, Unpredictable behavior might occur.

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