AM625: DDR4 SDRAM Does not run on 800 MHz.

Part Number: AM625

Tool/software:

We have designed a custom board with AM6254 processor and one 32Gb x16 DDR4 SDRAM chip.

The SDRAM runs successfully at 400 MHz but doe not at 800 MHz.

I did measured the clock signals to verify that we are setting the frequency correctly and noticed something surprising.

Since I used a single ended oscilloscope probe to measure the DDR4 differential clock, the voltage measurements are not very relevant but the over 3 times smaller peak-to-peak amplitude of the 800 MHz clock vs the 400 MHz clock is surprising to me. See the oscillograms below:

400 MHz clock

800 MHz clock

Thanks,

Kris