80960HA/HD/HT

Table 7. 80960Hx Processor Family Pin Descriptions (Sheet 1 of 4)

 

Name

 

Type

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

O

ADDRESS BUS carries the upper 30 bits of the physical address. A31 is the most

 

 

 

 

 

significant address bit and A2 is the least significant. During a bus access, A31:2

 

A31:2

 

H(Z)

 

 

identify all external addresses to word (4-byte) boundaries. The byte enable

 

 

B(Z)

 

 

 

 

 

signals indicate the selected byte in each word. During burst accesses, A3 and

 

 

 

 

 

R(Z)

 

 

 

 

 

A2 increment to indicate successive addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I/O

DATA BUS carries 32, 16, or 8-bit data quantities depending on bus width

 

 

 

 

 

S(L)

 

D31:0

 

configuration. The least significant bit of the data is carried on D0 and the most

 

 

H(Z)

 

 

significant on D31. The lower eight data lines (D7:0) are used when the bus is

 

 

 

 

 

B(Z)

 

 

 

 

 

configured for 8-bit data. When configured for 16-bit data, D15:0 are used.

 

 

 

 

 

R(Z)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATA PARITY carries parity information for the data bus. Each parity bit is

 

 

 

 

 

 

assigned a group of eight data bus pins as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

I/O

DP3 generates/checks parity for D31:24

 

DP3:0

 

S(L)

DP2 generates/checks parity for D23:16

 

 

H(Z)

DP1 generates/checks parity for D15:8

 

 

 

 

 

B(Z)

DP0 generates/checks parity for D7:0

 

 

 

 

 

R(Z)

Parity information is generated for a processor write cycle and is checked for a

 

 

 

 

 

 

processor read cycle. Parity checking and polarity are programmable. Parity

 

 

 

 

 

 

generation/checking is only performed for the size of the data accessed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

O

 

 

 

 

 

 

H(Q)

PARITY CHECK indicates the result of a parity check operation. An asserted

 

PCHK

 

 

B(Q)

PCHK indicates that the previous bus read access resulted in a parity check error.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BYTE ENABLES select which of the four bytes addressed by A31:2 are active

 

 

 

 

 

 

during a bus access. Byte enable encoding is dependent on the bus width of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

memory region accessed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

32-bit bus:

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE3 enables D31:24

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE2 enables D23:16

 

 

 

 

 

O

BE1 enables D15:8

 

 

 

 

 

BE0 enables D7:0

 

 

 

 

 

H(Z)

16-bit bus:

 

BE3:0

 

 

B(Z)

BE3 becomes Byte High Enable (enables D15:8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R(1)

BE2 is not used (state is undefined)

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE1 becomes Address Bit 1 (A1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE0 becomes Byte Low Enable (enables D7:0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

8-bit bus:

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE3 is not used (state is undefined)

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE2 is not used (state is undefined)

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE1 Address Bit 1 (A1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

BE0 Address Bit 0 (A0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

O

WRITE/READ is low for read accesses and high for write accesses.

 

 

 

 

 

W/R becomes valid during the address phase of a bus cycle and remains valid

 

 

 

 

 

H(Z)

until the end of the cycle for non-pipelined accesses. For pipelined accesses, W/

 

W/R

 

 

 

R changes state when the next address is presented.

 

 

B(Z)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0= Read

 

 

 

 

 

R(0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1= Write

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

O

DATA/CODE indicates that a bus access is a data access or an instruction

 

 

 

 

 

H(Z)

access. D/C has the same timing as W/R.

 

D/C

 

 

 

0 = Code

 

 

B(Z)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R(0)

1 = Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Intel 80960HT, 80960HD, 80960HA manual Hx Processor Family Pin Descriptions Sheet 1, Name Type Description

80960HT, 80960HA, 80960HD specifications

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