LSI 53C875A technical manual Prefetching Scripts Instructions

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Step 3. Halt the SCSI clock by setting the Halt SCSI Clock bit (SCSI Test Three (STEST3), bit 5).

Step 4. Set the clock conversion factor using the SCF and CCF fields in the SCSI Control Three (SCNTL3) register.

Step 5. Set the SCLK Quadrupler Select bit (SCSI Test One (STEST1), bit 2).

Step 6. Clear the Halt SCSI Clock bit.

2.2.6 Prefetching SCRIPTS Instructions

When enabled by setting the Prefetch Enable bit (bit 5) in the DMA Control (DCNTL) register, the prefetch logic in the LSI53C875A fetches 8 Dwords of instructions. The prefetch logic automatically determines the maximum burst size that it can perform, based on the burst length as determined by the values in the DMA Mode (DMODE) register. If the unit cannot perform bursts of at least four Dwords, it disables itself. While the chip is prefetching SCRIPTS instructions, it will use PCI cache commands Memory Read Line, and Memory Read Multiple, if PCI caching is enabled.

Note: This feature is only useful if fetching SCRIPTS instructions from main memory. Due to the short access time of SCRIPTS RAM, prefetching is not necessary when fetching instructions from this memory.

The LSI53C875A may flush the contents of the prefetch unit under certain conditions, listed below, to ensure that the chip always operates from the most current version of the SCRIPTS instruction. When one of these conditions apply, the contents of the prefetch unit are automatically flushed.

On every Memory Move instruction. The Memory Move instruction is often used to place modified code directly into memory. To make sure that the chip executes all recent modifications, the prefetch unit flushes its contents and loads the modified code every time an instruction is issued. To avoid inadvertently flushing the prefetch unit contents, use the No Flush option for all Memory Move operations that do not modify code within the next 8 Dwords. For more information on this instruction refer to Chapter 5, “SCSI SCRIPTS Instruction Set.”

SCSI Functional Description

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LSI 53C875A technical manual Prefetching Scripts Instructions