SPRZ408D June 2014 – June 2021 AM4372 , AM4376 , AM4377 , AM4378 , AM4379
DDR3/DDR3L SDRAM specification (JESD79-J3, July 2010) states that "RESET# is recommended to be maintained below 0.2x VDDS_DDR" during initial power ramp. The main reason for this is to ensure the DDR3/DDR3L outputs are in High-Z to avoid an excessive current depending on bus activity. When implementing RTC+DDR mode, an external pull-up resistor of 1K or lower is required on DDR_RESETn to maintain DDR3/DDR3L memory in self-refresh. The external pull-up creates a spec violation during power up because DDR_RESETn will ramp during initial power cycle (the ramp will follow the voltage rail of the pull-up resistor). However, all DDR3/DDR3L I/Os of the AM437x DDR3/DDR3L interface are disabled during power ramp and until DDR3/DDR3L is initialized. Thus, there will be no signal contention and no excessive current on the DDR3/DDR3L interface. This specification violation will not negatively affect the AM437x device or the DDR3/DDR3L memory devices. Note, this violation is only applicable for low-power designs implementing RTC+DDR mode.