G - Physics – 06 – F
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G - Physics
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354/230.8
G06F 9/38 (2006.01) G06F 12/08 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1313274
BC988-005 CONTROL OF PIPELINED OPERATION IN A MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEM EMPLOYING DYNAMIC BUS SIZING WITH 80386 PROCESSOR AND 82385 CACHE CONTROLLER ABSTRACT Any incompatibility between pipelined operations (such as is available in the 80386) and dynamic bus sizing (allowing the processor to operate with devices of 8-, 16- and 32-bit sizes) is accommodated by use of an address decoder and ensuring that device addresses for cacheable devices are in a first predetermined range and any device addresses for non- cacheable devices are not in that predetermined range. Since by definition cacheable devices are 32- bit devices, pipelined operation is allowed only in the address decoder indicates the access is to a cacheable device. In that event, a next address signal is provided to the 80386. This allows the 80386 to proceed to a following cycle prior to completion of the previous cycle. For accesses which are to devices whose address indicate they are non- cacheable, a next address signal is withheld until the cycle is completed, i.e. without pipelining. The invention further provides for proper interface between a DMA mechanism (driven by a first clock) and a CPU local bus subsystem (driven by an entirely different clock). Data provided by the DMA mechanism is latched into an interface between the CPU local bus and the system bus, and a DMA cycle completed. Only after completion of the DMA cycle is detected, is the cycle on the CPU local bus allowed to BC988-005 33 complete. In this fashion, the CPU can go on to a following operation and be assured that the DMA mechanism is no longer driving the system bus.
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Begun Ralph Murray
Bland Patrick Maurice
Dean Mark Edward
International Business Machines Corporation
Saunders Raymond H.
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