External Memory Interface Handbook Volume 2: Design Guidelines: For UniPHY-based Device Families

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Date 3/06/2023
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11.2.12. Starvation Control

The controller implements a starvation counter to ensure that lower-priority requests are not forgotten as higher-priority requests are reordered for efficiency.

In starvation control, a counter is incremented for every command served. You can set a starvation limit, to ensure that a waiting command is served immediately upon the starvation counter reaching the specified limit.

For example, if you set a starvation limit of 10, a lower-priority command is treated as high priority and served immediately, after ten other commands are served before it.