To: fyodor_ who wrote (35565 ) 4/12/2001 1:16:32 PM From: Petz Read Replies (1) | Respond to My original post was not very clear, let me restate it with the changed parts in bold:The extra die space to continue to support regular DDR along with DDR-II is probably insignificant. In fact there is no reason that an integrated northbridge could not continue to support straight DDR as well as DDR-II by sharing the same I/O pins and having a control bit to change the interface. The problem will be getting DDR-II right the first time, but if the DDR-II interface proved buggy, at least these chips could still support DDR.field programmable gate array which is programmed after the rest of the die has been manufactured? Sure, you could leave much of the timing up to later "programming", but the interface itself would have to be hard-wired in silicon.
