Sony DX4, 486DX, AR-B1474 manual PC/104 ISA Bus Signal Description, IRQ 3-7, 9-12, 14

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(3) PC/104 ISA Bus Signal Description

 

Name

Description

 

 

BUSCLK [Output]

The BUSCLK signal of the I/O channel is asynchronous

 

 

 

to the CPU clock.

 

 

RSTDRV [Output]

This signal goes high during power-up, low line-voltage or

 

 

 

hardware reset

 

 

SA0 - SA19

The System Address lines run from bit 0 to 19. They are

 

 

[Input / Output]

latched onto the falling edge of "BALE"

 

 

LA17 - LA23

The Unlatched Address line run from bit 17 to 23

 

 

[Input/Output]

 

 

 

SD0 - SD15

System Data bit 0 to 15

 

 

[Input/Output]

 

 

 

BALE [Output]

The Buffered Address Latch Enable is used to latch SA0

 

 

 

– SA19 onto the falling edge. This signal is forced high

 

 

 

during DMA cycles

 

 

-IOCHCK [Input]

The I/O Channel Check is an active low signal which

 

 

 

indicates that a parity error exist on the I/O board

 

 

IOCHRDY

This signal lengthens the I/O, or memory read/write cycle,

 

 

[Input, Open collector]

and should be held low with a valid address

 

 

IRQ 3-7, 9-12, 14, 15

The Interrupt Request signal indicates I/O service request

 

 

[Input]

attention. They are prioritized in the following sequence :

 

 

 

(Highest) IRQ 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (Lowest)

 

 

-IOR

The I/O Read signal is an active low signal which

 

 

[Input/Output]

instructs the I/O device to drive its data onto the data bus

 

 

-IOW[Input/Output]

The I/O write signal is an active low signal which instructs

 

 

 

the I/O device to read data from the data bus

 

 

-SMEMR[Output]

The System Memory Read is low while any of the low

 

 

 

1mega bytes of memory are being used

 

 

-MEMR

The Memory Read signal is low while any memory

 

 

[Input/Output]

location is being read

 

 

-SMEMW[Output]

The System Memory Write is low while any of the low

 

 

 

1mega bytes of memory is being written

 

 

-MEMW

The Memory Write signal is low while any memory

 

 

[Input/Output]

location is being written

 

 

DRQ 0-3, 5-7 [Input]

DMA Request channels 0 to 3 are for 8-bit data transfers.

 

 

 

DMA Request channels 5 to 7 are for 16-bit data

 

 

 

transfers. DMA request should be held high until the

 

 

 

corresponding DMA has been completed. DMA request

 

 

 

priority is in the following sequence:(Highest) DRQ 0, 1,

 

 

 

2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (Lowest)

 

 

-DACK 0-3, 5-7

The DMA Acknowledges 0 to 3, 5 to 7 are the

 

 

[Output]

corresponding acknowledge signals for DRQ 0 to 3 and 5

 

 

 

to 7

 

 

AEN [output]

The DMA Address Enable is high when the DMA

 

 

 

controller is driving the address bus. It is low when the

 

 

 

CPU is driving the address bus

 

 

-REFRESH

This signal is used to indicate a memory refresh cycle

 

 

[Input/Output]

and can be driven by the microprocessor on the I/O

 

 

 

channel

 

 

TC [Output]

Terminal Count provides a pulse when the terminal count

 

 

 

for any DMA channel is reached

 

 

SBHE [Input/Output]

The System Bus High Enable indicates the high byte SD8

 

 

 

- SD15 on the data bus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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