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- From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why does my 486 require 2 wait states?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.151349.14171@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:13:49 GMT
- References: <1ia62bINN37o@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <1993Jan4.213815.28624@bmers95.bnr.ca>
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <1993Jan4.213815.28624@bmers95.bnr.ca> khor@bnr.ca writes:
- > With 33MHz, you are accessing the memory at (1/33E6)secs = 30.3 ns.
- > That is too fast as most DRAMs can only provide access reliablity
- > of 70/80ns (older DRAMs -> 100ns).
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- Actually it isn't so bad... 60ns DRAM have a page mode access of 30ns,
- Since the 0ws cycle has about 40ns of time available, it is possible
- that some designs might try for 0ws page mode (although 1ws is more
- realistic). Using interleaved memory and burst mode (486) it is
- possible to do the x-2-2-2 cycles without much difficulty.
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