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 More options Jul 23, 11:48 pm
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded, sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design
From: Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:48:39 +0200
Local: Wed, Jul 23 2008 11:48 pm
Subject: Re: Connecting FLASH memory device on printed circuit board

Norman Bollmann wrote:
> I am new to the board design and stuff so please excuse me for asking
> questions that may be selfevident... ;-) What I want to do is to connect an
> Intel StrataFlash (or compatible) linear flash memory device (8MB) to an
> Intel PXA26x processor.

Is this chip still available? I've heard the PXA was sold to another
company and Intel isn't producing it anymore.

> Now I wonder if I should pay attention to the
> impedance (some time ago I heard a weird fairy tale saying that everything
> on board should be designed to 50 Ohms...?!) on the lines that connect the
> devices or just design some connections no matter how and let a matter rest.

I don't know the details, but I know a company, who needed about one year
(2 man years) to design a board with a PXA, Flash and SDRAM. Many tries
were needed to do the routing right, adding buffers, measuring with
expensive logic analyzers and oscilloscopes etc. I hope you are working at
a big company, who has the knowledge and power to design such a board and
to do bug searching at 100 MHz, or faster, buses.

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Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de


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