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ATmega8515(L)
2512K–AVR–01/10
Pull-up and Bus Keeper
The pull-up resistors on the AD7:0 ports may be activated if the corresponding Port
Register is written to one. To reduce power consumption in sleep mode, it is recom-
mended to disable the pull-ups by writing the Port Register to zero before entering
sleep.
The XMEM interface also provides a bus keeper on the AD7:0 lines. The bus keeper
AD7:0 bus while these lines are tri-stated by the XMEM interface.
Timing
External memory devices have various timing requirements. To meet these require-
ments, the ATmega8515 XMEM interface provides four different wait states as shown in
Table 3. It is important to consider the timing specification of the external memory
device before selecting the wait state. The most important parameters are the access
time for the external memory in conjunction with the set-up requirement of the
ATmega8515. The access time for the external memory is defined to be the time from
receiving the chip select/address until the data of this address actually is driven on the
bus. The access time cannot exceed the time from the ALE pulse is asserted low until
data must be stable during a read sequence (t
105 on page 204). The different wait states are set up in software. As an additional fea-
ture, it is possible to divide the external memory space in two sectors with individual wait
state settings. This makes it possible to connect two different memory devices with dif-
ferent timing requirements to the same XMEM interface. For XMEM interface timing
Note that the XMEM interface is asynchronous and that the waveforms in the figures
below are related to the internal system clock. The skew between the Internal and Exter-
nal clock (XTAL1) is not guaranteed (it varies between devices, temperature, and supply
voltage). Consequently, the XMEM interface is not suited for synchronous operation.
Figure 13. External Data Memory Cycles without Wait State (SRWn1 = 0 and
Note:
1. SRWn1 = SRW11 (upper sector) or SRW01 (lower sector), SRWn0 = SRW10 (upper
sector) or SRW00 (lower sector)
The ALE pulse in period T4 is only present if the next instruction accesses the RAM
(internal or external).
ALE
T1
T2
T3
Wr
ite
Read
WR
T4
A15:8
Address
Prev. Addr.
DA7:0
Address
Data
Prev. Data
XX
RD
DA7:0 (XMBK = 0)
Data
Prev. Data
Address
Data
Prev. Data
Address
DA7:0 (XMBK = 1)
System Clock (CLKCPU)