External Memory Controller (EMC)
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Philips Semiconductors
Preliminary User Manual
LPC2119/2129/2292/2294
ARM-based Microcontroller
EXTERNAL MEMORY SELECTION
Based on the description of the EMC operation and external memory in general (appropriate read and write access times t
AA
and
t
WRITE
respecitely), the following table can be constructed and used for external memory selection. t
CYC
is the period of a single
XCLK cycle (see Figure 10 and Figure 11). f
max
is the maximum pclk frequency achivable in the system with selected external
memory.
Table 10: External memory and system requirements
Access
cycle
Max. frequency
WST setting
(WST>=0; round up to integer)
Required memory access time
Standard
Read
2 + WST1
f
max
<=
———————
t
RAM
+ 20ns
t
RAM
+ 20ns
WST1>=
—————— - 2
t
CYC
t
RAM
<= t
CYC
*(2+WST1) - 20ns
Standard
Write
1 + WST2
f
max
<=
———————
t
RAM
+ 5ns
t
WRITE
- t
CYC
+ 5ns
WST2>=
—————————
t
CYC
t
WRITE
<= t
CYC
*(1+WST2) - 5ns