
AMD
P R E L I M I N A R Y
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Am79C965
Linear Burst DMA Timing Diagram Explanatory
Note
Note that in all of the following timing diagrams for linear
burst operations, a LINBC[2:0] value of 001 has been
assumed. This translates to a linear burst length of four
transfers. When the linear burst size is four transfers,
then A[31:4] are stable within a single linear burst se-
quence, while A[3:2] and
BE3-BE0 will change to reflect
the address of the current transfer. Note that for larger
values of LINBC[2:0] which correspond to longer linear
burst lengths, the range of address pins that is stable
during each burst sequence is smaller. For example, if
LINBC[2:0] has the value of 010, then the linear burst
length is eight double word transfers or 32 bytes of data.
With this value of LINBC, it takes five address bits to
track the changing addresses through the burst. This
means that only A[31:5] are stable during each linear
burst sequence, while A[4:2] and
BE3-BE0 will change
to reflect the address of the current transfer. For
LINBC[2:0] = 100, only A[31:6] are stable during each
linear burst sequence, while A[5:2] and
BE3-BE0 will
change to reflect the address of the current transfer, and
so on. Table 22 summarizes this information.
Table 22. Stable Address Lines During
Linear Burst
Portion of Address Bus
LINBC Value
Stable During Linear Burst
000
Linear Bursting Disabled
001
A[31:4]
010
A[31:5]
100
A[31:6]
Values of LINBC not shown in the table are not allowed.
See the LINBC section of BCR18 for more details.
Since all of the timing diagrams assume a LINBC[2:0]
value of 001, then A[31:4] are shown to be stable within
each linear burst sequence, and A[3:2] and
BE3–BE0
are shown as changing in order to reflect the address of
the current transfer.
Linear Burst DMA Address Alignment
Linear bursting may begin during a bus mastership pe-
riod which was initially performing only ordinary DMA
operations. (I.e. the value of
BLAST is not restricted to
ZERO for an entire bus mastership period if ZERO was
the value of
BLAST on the first access of a bus master-
ship period.) A change from non-linear bursting to linear
bursting will normally occur during linear burst DMA ad-
dress alignment operations.
If the PCnet-32 controller is programmed for LINEAR
burst mode (i.e. BREADE and/or BWRITE bits of
BCR18 are set to ONE), and the PCnet-32 controller
requests the bus, but the starting address of the first
transaction does not meet the conditions as specified in
the table above, then the PCnet-32 controller will per-
form burst-cycle accesses (i.e.. it will provide an
ADS for
each transfer) until it arrives at an address that does
meet the conditions described in the table. At that time,
and without releasing the bus, the PCnet-32 controller
will invoke the linear burst mode. The simple external
manifestation of this event is that the value of the
BLAST
signal will change to deasserted (driven high) on the
next T2 cycle, thereby indicating a willingness of the
PCnet-32 controller to perform linear bursting. (Note
that
burst-cycle
accesses
are
performed
with
BLAST = 0.)
Figure 13 shows an example of a linear burst DMA align-
ment operation being performed: