[ixp1200] Re: SRAM Memory Lookup

Scott C. Karlin scott at CS.Princeton.EDU
Mon Jan 21 22:02:43 EST 2002


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:15:52PM +0530, S Murali wrote:
> 
>   I would like to know how many CYCLES a microengine takes to do a single
> SRAM memory lookup ? Is it a constant or does it depend on anything ?
> How does it differ from SDRAM ?

It's definitely not constant.  There is contention with StrongARM accesses.
In the case of SDRAM, there is contention with both the StrongARM and the
PCI interface.

Scott



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