what is th emin amount of layers for a pcb to fully implement DDR-SDRAM?

Mday

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i'll also be looking into this as well. just checking if anyone is familiar with this. =)

thanks in advance.

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backstory: senior project will be making use of DDR-SDRAM and the newly established press\milling setup can only do 4 layers.
 

KalTorak

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Depends what else you've got going on and how much room you have to route :)
You should be able to route a 64-bit DDR SDRAM channel in 2 routing layers + 2 reference plane layers, so 4L should be doable. You MIGHT be able to get two channels into that space - I've heard that's doable, but never tried it myself.
 

Mday

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Originally posted by: KalTorak
Depends what else you've got going on and how much room you have to route :)
You should be able to route a 64-bit DDR SDRAM channel in 2 routing layers + 2 reference plane layers, so 4L should be doable. You MIGHT be able to get two channels into that space - I've heard that's doable, but never tried it myself.

room doesnt matter, although i am not aware of the limits of the machine.. it's a prototype anyway.
 

Lynx516

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4 layers was standard for 1 channel DDR when it came out. It started off as 6 layers then worked down to 4