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The leveling processes in the DDR3 interface impose an upper limit on the maximum round-trip delay. If this limit is exceeded, the DDR3 interface may fail the leveling process and data corruption may occur. This limit is sufficiently large that well-controlled topologies will not likely exceed the limit.
The round-trip delay for a given SDRAM is defined as the sum of two delays. The first is the delay for the clock, command, control, and address groups to that SDRAM. The second is the delay for the data group to that same SDRAM. This round-trip delay must be calculated for each byte-lane to each SDRAM device implemented in the DDR3 memory topology. All of these individual sums must be below the limit to ensure robust operation.
The DDR3 PHY logic has an upper limit of 6 clock cycles. For instance, when operating at 1600MT/s, the clock is 800MHz which has a period of 1250ps. The maximum round trip delay is 6 clock periods or 7500ps. At a propagation delay of 180ps per inch, this limits the maximum round trip routed length to over 41.6 inches.