Ciprico Rimfire 3880 manual

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Chapter 2 Hardware Essentials

Address Buffer Port

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Control Field

Use this byte-wide field to tailor the RF3880 adapter’s use of the system bus.

With it, you can set-up the adapter to:

Transfer data in 16-bit, 32-bit or 64-bit mode on the VMEbus.

Byte or word swap command structures to be compatible with the byte and word ordering of either Intel or Motorola architectures.

Note

For any of the control bits to be considered valid by the adapter, the SET bit must be one.

Note

The RF3880 supports 64-bit wide block transfers for only those Address Modifiers listed in the VME specification.

Byte and word swapping are further discussed in Chapter 8, Details of Usage.

The bit meanings of the Control Field are as follows:

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

SET

0

0

0

0

WID

WSC

BSC

Table 7: Control Field of Address Buffer Port

BSC Byte Swapping Control - Defines whether high and low bytes of a word will be swapped during transfer of status and parameter blocks.

0 No swapping.

1 Change byte order.

WSC Word Swapping Control - Defines whether high and low words of a double word will be swapped during transfer of status and parameter blocks.

0 No swapping.

1 Change word order.

WID WIDth of data transfers - Determines (in conjunction with VMEbus Address Modifier) the width of data transfers across the system bus.

0 16-bit data transfers.

(forces 16-bit transfers regardless of Address Modifier used.)

1 32-bit or 64-bit data transfers, dependent on the Address Modifier used.

SET select new control SETtings - Determines whether the rest of the bits in the Control Field should be applied to adapter operation.

0 ignore all other bits.

1 apply bit values to next transfer.

User’s Guide

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