Hi,
What kind of RAM can be used with the lowest power available, with an MCU that might run either at 15MHz or 1MHz, possibly both? The chip is LPC2210, which allows 8,16,32-bit wide data busses and can do SRAM, DRAM or EDO. I'm not worried about the cost or speed. The ram will also be underclocked to match the MCU, and also to lower power requirements. I'm hoping for under 1mA @ 3.3v or less, for 1M x 8. What kind or make of memory should I use?
Ive seen The cellularram chips, but like most other DRAM the difference between active and standby is big, and I dont know how to calculate the average usage @ 1MHz. Surely there'd be hardly any activity on the ram for the most part at that clock... can I safely say the usage will be under 1mA even with a memory intensive app running on the MCU @ 1MHz?
Can I have some sort of SRAM that can give me lower power usage?
Since I'm underclocking, the signals to the ram chip will be running much slower. But the fraction of time the activity pin is high will remain the same (thus the power usage on sram). Can I somehow (with capacitor and high speed latch tricks or otherwise) reduce the active high state on the sram such that a 133MHz sram read at 1MHz will only see the active high at 1/133rd times the normal?
Lastly will using the 8-bit wide data path for ram chips significantly lower power consumption compared to the 32-bit wide data path?