General Technical Discussion

[elvisjohndowson]

Hi,

        I'm trying to integrate the TI OMAP 35xx General Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC) with a Xilinx Virtex-5 / Spartan-3AN FPGA.

I have a basic question, should the FPGA be integrated with the GPMC using a NAND or NOR protocol?

Here is an excerpt from the TI OMAP 35xx Technical Reference Manual (Rev. B).

11.1.6.2.1 Supported Memories or Devices

General-Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC) www.ti.com

This section is intended to help the user select a suitable memory device to interface with the GPMC

controller.

NAND flash and NOR flash architectures are the two flash technologies. The GPMC supports various

types of external memory or device, basically any one that supports NAND or NOR protocols:

· 8- and 16-bit width asynchronous or synchronous memory or device (8-bit: non burst device only)

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson 

[defossez]

Hallo,

As the OMAP text reads, either NAND or NOR will work.

What protocol is the fastest and using the wides data bus?, that is the one I should take to implement.

0.02 euro,

Marc