[RFC PATCH 0/6] spi: Add OSPI PHY calibration support for spi-cadence-quadspi

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Fri Mar 12 13:26:50 GMT 2021


Am 2021-03-12 12:07, schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
> On 12/03/21 11:20AM, Michael Walle wrote:
>> Am 2021-03-12 11:10, schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
>> > There is usually a delay from when the flash drives the data line (IOW,
>> > puts a data bit on it) and when the signal reaches the controller. This
>> > delay can vary by the flash, board, silicon characteristics,
>> > temperature, etc.
>> 
>> Temperature might change over time, but the calibration is only done
>> once. I don't know how much influence the temperature actually has, 
>> but
>> our boards are usually operating from -40°C to +85°C. So there might 
>> be
>> a possible temperature difference of 125K between actual calibration 
>> and
>> when the flash is accessed.
> 
> The algorithm supports a temperature range of -45 C to +130 C. The
> temperature is checked at calibration time and adjustments are made to
> make sure the reads work over the entire temperature range [0].

Ah, nice. And you need the current temperature to correlate it to the
meassured timings, right?

-michael



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