[Cryptech Tech] Alpha SDRAMs

Leif Johansson leifj at sunet.se
Sun May 22 14:16:55 UTC 2016


On 2016-05-22 13:56, Fredrik Thulin wrote:
> On söndag 22 maj 2016 kl. 14:37:56 CEST Pavel Shatov wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I got one of the Alpha boards from Fredrik and was busy trying to bring
>> up the two on-board SDRAM chips. I believe, I finally have them working.
> ...
>> Anyways, both external memory chips seem to work now. I uploaded simple
>> test program, that basically fills entire memory with pseudo-random
>> pattern, reads it back and compares with what was written.
> 
> That is terrific news, thank you!
> 
> With that, I think we can actually say the Alpha is operational.

I've been trying to keep tabs on the updates... does this mean we built
hardware with 0 bugs?

You guys have done a fabulous job!

	Cheers Leif




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