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Qiyan Li
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December 4, 2017
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How can STM32F446RE connect external SDRAM

  • December 4, 2017
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Posted on December 04, 2017 at 21:23

The data sheet says there is no FMC on STM32F446RE. Is that means there is no chance to connect external RAM with STM32F446RE?

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waclawek.jan
Super User
December 12, 2017
Posted on December 12, 2017 at 08:32

While the datasheet indeed says that, it's more that you simply don't have enough FMC-connected pins on the 64-pin package to make any reasonable connection.

You still can connect a SRAM and simply manually 'bit-bang' the read and write signals. Performance of course will be slow. SDRAM might be possible with a serious amount of hacking, but not practical at all.

There are also serially-connectible (SPI) SRAMs, e.g. from Microchip and ONSemi; again there is surely a need for some programming and some performance loss.

JW