On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Mike Larsen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I've been looking into the chips used with the BBB and I'm curious about >> something. >> >> Why do you use a 4gb chip and employ only 512mb of it? >> Is the extra space used for anything? >> The hardware manual says that other DDR3L chips may be used...I'm assuming >> it needs to be a x16...but what other pitfalls should I watch out for? > > Memory manufactures market their ic's using "Megabit (Mb)"... > > 4 (Mb) * 1024 / 8 = 512 (MB) Megabyte
Doh! that should be "Gb" but the math Gb->Mb transition is still correct.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
