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CS8900A

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3.2 ISA Bus Interface

The CS8900A provides a direct interface to ISA

buses running at clock rates from 8 to 11 MHz. Its

on-chip bus drivers are capable of delivering

24 mA of drive current, allowing the CS8900A to

drive the ISA bus directly, without added external

"glue logic".

The CS8900A is optimized for 16-bit data trans-

fers, operating in either Memory space, I/O space,

or as a DMA slave.

Note that ISA-bus operation below 8 MHz should

use the CS8900A’s Receive DMA mode to mini-

mize missed frames. See Section 5.4 on page 90 for

a description of Receive DMA operation.

3.2.1 Memory Mode Operation

When configured for Memory Mode operation, the

CS8900A’s internal registers and frame buffers are

mapped into a contiguous 4-Kbyte block of host

memory, providing the host with direct access to

the CS8900A’s internal registers and frame buff-

ers. The host initiates Read operations by driving

the MEMR pin low and Write operations by driv-

ing the MEMW pin low.

For additional information about Memory Mode,

see Section 4.9 on page 74.

3.2.2 I/O Mode Operation

When configured for I/O Mode operation, the

CS8900A is accessed through eight, 16-bit I/O

ports that are mapped into sixteen contiguous I/O

locations in the host system’s I/O space. I/O Mode

is the default configuration for the CS8900A and is

always enabled.

For an I/O Read or Write operation, the AEN pin

must be low, and the 16-bit I/O address on the ISA

System Address bus (SA0 - SA15) must match the

address space of the CS8900A. For a Read, IOR

must be low, and for a Write, IOW must be low.

For additional information about I/O Mode, see

Section 4.10 on page 76.

3.2.3 Interrupt Request Signals

The CS8900A has four interrupt request output

pins that can be connected directly to any four of

the ISA bus Interrupt Request signals. Only one in-

terrupt output is used at a time. It is selected during

initialization by writing the interrupt number (0 to

3) into PacketPage Memory base + 0022h. Unused

interrupt request pins are placed in a high-imped-

ance state. The selected interrupt request pin goes

high when an enabled interrupt is triggered. The

pin goes low after the Interrupt Status Queue (ISQ)

is read as all 0’s (see Section 5.1 on page 79 for a

description of the ISQ).

Table 1 presents one possible way of connecting

the interrupt request pins to the ISA bus that utiliz-

es commonly available interrupts and facilitates

board layout.

3.2.4 DMA Signals

The CS8900A interfaces directly to the host DMA

controller to provide DMA transfers of receive

frames from CS8900A memory to host memory.

The CS8900A has three pairs of DMA pins that can

be connected directly to the three 16-bit DMA

channels of the ISA bus. Only one DMA channel is

used at a time. It is selected during initialization by

writing the number of the desired channel (0, 1 or

2) into PacketPage Memory base + 0024h. Unused

DMA pins are placed in a high-impedance state.

The selected DMA request pin goes high when the

CS8900A has received frames to transfer to the

host memory via DMA. If the DMABurst bit (reg-

ister 17, BusCTL, Bit B) is clear, the pin goes low

after the DMA operation is complete. If the

CS8900A Interrupt

Request Pin

ISA Bus

Interrupt

PacketPage

base + 0022h

INTRQ3 (Pin 35)

IRQ5

0003h

INTRQ0 (Pin 32)

IRQ10

0000h

INTRQ1 (Pin 31)

IRQ11

0001h

INTRQ2 (Pin 30)

IRQ12

0002h

Table 1. Interrupt Assignments

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