User’s Manual

IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor

Figure 8-10. Data-Bus Arbitration

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A qualified data-bus grant can be expressed as the following:

QDBG = DBG asserted while DBB, DRTRY, and ARTRY (associated with the data-bus operation) are negated.

When a data tenure overlaps with its associated address tenure, a qualified ARTRY assertion coincident with a data-bus grant signal does not result in data-bus mastership (DBB is not asserted). Otherwise, the 750GX always asserts DBB on the bus clock cycle after recognition of a qualified data-bus grant. Since the 750GX can pipeline transactions, there might be an outstanding data-bus transaction when a new address transaction is retried. In this case, the 750GX becomes the data-bus master to complete the outstanding transaction.

8.4.1.1 Using the DBB Signal

The DBB signal should be connected between masters if data tenure scheduling is left to the masters. Optionally, the memory system can control data tenure scheduling directly with DBG. However, it is possible to ignore the DBB signal in the system if the DBB input is not used as the final data-bus allocation control between data-bus masters, and if the memory system can track the start and end of the data tenure. If DBB is not used to signal the end of a data tenure, DBG is only asserted to the next bus master the cycle before the cycle that the next bus master might actually begin its data tenure, rather than asserting it earlier (usually during another master’s data tenure) and allowing the negation of DBB to be the final gating signal for a qualified data-bus grant. Even if DBB is ignored in the system, the 750GX always recognizes its own assertion of DBB, and requires one cycle after data tenure completion to negate its own DBB before recognizing a qualified data-bus grant for another data tenure. If DBB is ignored in the system, it must still be connected to a pull-up resistor on the 750GX to ensure proper operation.

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