Odd traces on SODIMM

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Stuckey
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8 years 6 months ago #2799 by Stuckey

Odd traces on SODIMM was created by Stuckey

I took these photos of this 2GB SODIMM from my laptop and I noticed some odd traces. What is the point of this elaborate snaking when he rest of the board has clean, short path traces?

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8 years 6 months ago #2807 by Stuckey

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And we have an answer. From Dave Jones of EEVBLOG:

"It matches the trace length to the one next to it. For timing. RT @brianstuckey: what is the point of curvy tracks? bit.ly/u8zUX5"

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8 years 6 months ago #2811 by bcoggs

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Yup SDRAM has very tight timing. Trace length can factor in. So every data line and address line needs to be of near equal length. It isn' really an issue until the entire trace reaches multiple inches, like on a PC motherboard.
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