Block Diagram

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Description

The LP2994 is a linear bus termination regulator designed to

meet the JEDEC requirements of SSTL-2 and SSTL-3. The

output, V

regulating the output voltage equal to V

stage has been designed to maintain excellent load regula-

tion while preventing shoot through. The LP2994 also incor-

porates two distinct power rails which separates the analog

circuitry from the power output stage. This allows a split rail

approach to be utilized to decrease internal power dissipa-

tion. It also permits the LP2994 to provide a termination

solution for the next generation of DDR-SDRAM memory

(DDRII).

Series Stub Termination Logic (SSTL) was created to im-

prove signal integrity of the data transmission across the

memory bus. This termination scheme is essential to prevent

data error from signal reflections while transmitting at high

frequencies encountered with DDR-SDRAM. The most com-

mon form of termination is Class II single parallel termina-

tion. This involves one R

the memory and one R

for R

to scale the current requirements from the LP2994. This

implementation can be seen below in

Figure 2.

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FIGURE 2. SSTL Termination Scheme

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