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Table 2-1. Features of the VMEchip2 ASIC (Continued)

Function

Features

 

 

VMEbus-to-Local-

Programmable VMEbus map decoder

Bus Interface

 

Programmable AM decoder

 

 

 

 

Programmable local bus snoop enable

 

 

 

Simple VMEbus-to-local-bus address translation

 

 

 

8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit VMEbus data width

 

 

 

8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit block transfer

 

 

 

Standard and extended VMEbus addressing

 

 

 

Software-enabled write posting mode

 

 

 

Write post buffer (17 four-bytes in BLT mode, two four-bytes in non-

 

BLT mode)

 

 

 

An eight four-byte read ahead buffer (BLT mode only)

 

 

32-bit Local-Bus-to-

Programmable 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit VMEbus data width

VMEbus DMA

 

Programmable short, standard, and extended VMEbus addressing

Controller

 

Programmable AM code

 

 

 

 

Programmable local bus snoop enable

 

 

 

16 four-byte FIFO data buffer

 

 

 

Up to 4 GB of data per DMA request

 

 

 

Automatically adjustment of transfer size to optimize bus utilization

 

 

 

DMA complete interrupt

 

 

 

DMAC command chaining supported by a singly-linked list of DMA

 

commands

 

 

 

VMEbus DMA controller requester with:

 

Software-enabled fair request modes;

 

Software-configured release modes:

 

Release-On-Request (ROR), and

 

Release-On-End-Of-Data (ROEOD);

 

Software-configured BR0-BR3 request levels; and

 

– Software enabled bus-tenure timer

 

 

VMEbus Interrupter

Software-configured IRQ1-IRQ7 interrupt request level

 

 

 

8-bit software-programmed status/ID register

 

 

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