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Memory controller – Samsung S3C2440A User Manual

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S3C2440A RISC MICROPROCESSOR

MEMORY CONTROLLER

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MEMORY CONTROLLER

OVERVIEW

The S3C2440A memory controller provides memory control signals that are required for external memory access.

The S3C2440A has the following features:

— Little/Big endian (selectable by a software)

— Address space: 128Mbytes per bank (total 1GB/8 banks)

— Programmable access size (8/16/32-bit) for all banks except bank0 (16/32-bit)

— Total 8 memory banks

Six memory banks for ROM, SRAM, etc.
Remaining two memory banks for ROM, SRAM, SDRAM, etc .

— Seven fixed memory bank start address

— One flexible memory bank start address and programmable bank size

— Programmable access cycles for all memory banks

— External wait to extend the bus cycles

— Supporting self-refresh and power down mode in SDRAM