A.3 Bus Phases
Table A.4 Signal delay times definition (1/2)No. | Item | Time | Definition |
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1 | Arbitration | 2.4 µs | The minimum time an SCSI device shall wait from asserting |
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| BSY for arbitration until the DATA BUS can be examined to |
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| see if arbitration has been won. There is no maximum time. |
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2 | Assertion | 90 ns | The minimum time that a target shall assert REQ (or REQB) |
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| time that an initiator shall assert ACK while using |
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| synchronous data transfers. |
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3 | Bus Clear | 800 ns | The maximum time for an SCSI device to stop driving all bus |
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| signals after: |
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| (1) The BUS FREE phase is detected (BSY and SEL both |
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| false for a bus settle delay) |
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| (2) SEL is received from another SCSI device during the |
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| ARBITRATION phase |
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| (3) The transition of RST to true. |
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| For the first condition listed, the maximum time for an SCSI |
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| device to clear the bus is 1200 nanoseconds from BSY and |
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| SEL first becoming both false. If an SCSI device requires |
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| more than a bus settle delay to detect BUS FREE phase, it |
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| shall clear the bus within a bus clear delay minus the excess |
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| time. |
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4 | Bus free delay | 800 ns | The minimum time that an SCSI device shall wait from its |
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| detection of the BUS FREE phase (BSY and SEL both false |
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| for a bus settle delay) until its assertion of BSY when going to |
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| the ARBITRATION phase. |
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5 | Bus set delay | 1.8 µs | The maximum time for an SCSI device to assert BSY and its |
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| SCSI ID bit on the DATA BUS after it detects BUS FREE |
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| phase (BSY and SEL both false for a bus settle delay) for the |
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| purpose of entering the ARBITRATION phase |
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6 | Bus settle | 400 ns | The minimum time to wait for the bus to settle after changing |
| delay |
| certain control signals as called out in the protocol definitions |
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7 | Cable skew | 10 ns | The maximum difference in propagation time allowed |
| delay |
| between any two SCSI bus signals measured between any two |
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| SCSI devices |
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8 | Data release | 400 ns | The maximum time for an initiator to release the DATA BUS |
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| signals following the transition of the I/O signal from false to |
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| true |
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9 | Deskew delay | 45 ns | The minimum time required for deskew of certain signals |
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