The DM6446 DDR2 controller has:

162 MHz max speed
max 2 transfer per clock cycle
4 bytes per transfer

so the max (teorical) bandwidth is

162 x 2 x 4 = 1296 Mbytes/sec

All that is true in the ideal world!
Real estimates from TI tell 1240 MBytes/sec, so there is a scaling factor 0.957.

The DM355 DDR2 controller has

 270 MHz max speed
max 2 transfer per clock cycle
2 bytes per transfer

resulting in a max (teorical) bandwidth of

270 x 2 x 2 = 1080 Mbytes/sec

Now, If we assume a similar scaling factor we obtain 1034 Mbytes/sec

As regards the problem of simultaneous playing and recording of media files one 
should take into account also the SD interface (hardware transfer bandwidth), 
media format (mainly time resolution and space resolution) and the additive 
load represented by concurrent tasks.

Gabriele

Da: Panchy Rivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inviato: giovedì 30 ottobre 2008 15.15
A: Gabriele Filosofi
Oggetto: RE: Custom DM355 PCB

Thanks for the help Gabriele.  So that is a major difference between the DM355 
and the DM6446.  Do you know what the bandwidth is on the DM355 and DM 46446.  
Will the DM355 have enough bandwidth to record to SD card and play a different 
file at the same time.

Thanks
Panchy Rivas

From: Gabriele Filosofi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:04 AM
To: Panchy Rivas
Subject: R: Custom DM355 PCB

Gabriele

Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Panchy Rivas
Inviato: giovedì 30 ottobre 2008 14.51
A: [email protected]
Oggetto: Custom DM355 PCB

I plan on making a custom DM355 board and have a few questions.

1)      When we first populate the PCB how do we get Uboot, kernel, software on 
it?

2)      What exactly does the GEL file do (do we need it) and do you need CCS 
to load it?

3)      Side question - is the DDR2 memory on the DM6446 faster because of 
32bit width compared to DM355?

Both transfer rate and bus width affect the transfer bandwidth:
Total bandwidth = transfer rate x bus width.
Doubling bus width doesn't affect the transfer rate, but it doubles the 
transfer bandwidth.


4)      I heard there was a drop-in gerber file for the DDR2 memory PCB layout? 
I already read the DDR2 layout docs but wanted the actual layout.

Thanks
Panchy Rivas

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