Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a function for authenticating a communication occurring on an I 2 C bus and guaranteeing the correctness of the communication. SOLUTION: Authenticated communication (transaction) is enabled on a standard I 2 C bus without requiring modification of existing I 2 C devices. Read and write transactions occurring on the bus are authenticated using an Authentication Agent and a shared secret key. In addition to allowing verification of the legitimacy of the transactions, the authentication of the I 2 C transactions enhances the reliability and serviceability of the bus and devices on the bus by allowing the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to quickly determine errors and specify it. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A data processing system includes a microprocessor operable in a burst mode to read data from a memory. The memory, its controller and bus are operable in a pipelining mode. Array logic is connected between the microprocessor and the remaining elements for converting the burst mode to the pipeline mode.
Abstract:
A data processing system includes a microprocessor operable in a burst mode to read data from a memory. The memory, its controller and bus are operable in a pipelining mode. Array logic is connected between the microprocessor and the remaining elements for converting the burst mode to the pipeline mode.
Abstract:
A microprocessor based computer system is provided which includes a reset circuit having a phase error detector for detecting a phase error between an initial reset signal and a clock signal provided to the microprocessor clock input. The reset circuit further includes a phase error corrector for adjusting the phase of the clock signal if a phase error is detected so as to substantially minimize the phase error. The reset circuit includes a reset signal regenerator for providing a new reset signal to the reset input of the microprocessor when the phase of the clock signal is adjusted.
Abstract:
BC988-005 CONTROL OF PIPELINED OPERATION IN A MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEM EMPLOYING DYNAMIC BUS SIZING WITH 80386 PROCESSOR AND 82385 CACHE CONTROLLER Any incompatibility between pipelined operations (such as is available in the 80386) and dynamic bus sizing (allowing the processor to operate with devices of 8-, 16- and 32-bit sizes) is accommodated by use of an address decoder and ensuring that device addresses for cacheable devices are in a first predetermined range and any device addresses for noncacheable devices are not in that predetermined range. Since by definition cacheable devices are 32bit devices, pipelined operation is allowed only in the address decoder indicates the access is to a cacheable device. In that event, a next address signal is provided to the 80386. This allows the 80386 to proceed to a following cycle prior to completion of the previous cycle. For accesses which are to devices whose address indicate they are noncacheable, a next address signal is withheld until the cycle is completed, i.e. without pipelining. The invention further provides for proper interface between a DMA mechanism (driven by a first clock) and a CPU local bus subsystem (driven by an entirely different clock). Data provided by the DMA mechanism is latched into an interface between the CPU local bus and the system bus, and a DMA cycle completed. Only after completion of the DMA cycle is detected, is the cycle on the CPU local bus allowed to BC988-005 33 complete. In this fashion, the CPU can go on to a following operation and be assured that the DMA mechanism is no longer driving the system bus.
Abstract:
A microcomputer system includes a microprocessor, a cache memroy, and a cache controller all coupled to a local bus. The local bus is coupled to a sytem bus, connecting the remaining system components, through latches. When writing data, the microcomputer can perform a posted write to a unit on the system bus by writing the data into the latches and then, on receipt of a ready signal from the cache controller, continuing its operations without waiting for the data to pas to its destination. A problem arises if the data is posted to a unit with a data width less than that of the microprocessor. In this case, the data should be sent in multiple cycles, but the read signal is generated before the data width of the unit is known and the microprocessor then continues its operations and can not, therefore, transmit the data correctly. To solve this problem, a logic unit is added to monitor the ready signal and the output of a decoder which detects non-cacheable addresses (which are of data width different from the microprocessor data width). If a non-cacheable address is detected, the read signal from the cache controller through the logic unit is withheld from the microprocessor, which now waits to continue processing beyond the write until a ready signal is received from the addressed unit on the system bus.
Abstract:
A data processing system includes a microprocessor operable in a burst mode to read data from a memory. The memory, its controller and bus are operable in a pipelining mode. Array logic is connected between the microprocessor and the remaining elements for converting the burst mode to the pipeline mode.
Abstract:
A dual bus microcomputer system including a cache subsystem improves performance under certain circumstances by allowing programmable control over the LOCK function. More particularly, additional logic is coupled between the LOCK output of the CPU and the LOCK input of the cache controller. A control bit from an I/O port is a second input to the additional logic. With the control bit in one state, the logic allows the LOCK input to follow the LOCK output. In the other state of the control bit, the LOCK input is disabled regardless of the state of the LOCK output.
Abstract:
A microcomputer system includes a microprocessor, a cache memroy, and a cache controller all coupled to a local bus. The local bus is coupled to a sytem bus, connecting the remaining system components, through latches. When writing data, the microcomputer can perform a posted write to a unit on the system bus by writing the data into the latches and then, on receipt of a ready signal from the cache controller, continuing its operations without waiting for the data to pas to its destination. A problem arises if the data is posted to a unit with a data width less than that of the microprocessor. In this case, the data should be sent in multiple cycles, but the read signal is generated before the data width of the unit is known and the microprocessor then continues its operations and can not, therefore, transmit the data correctly. To solve this problem, a logic unit is added to monitor the ready signal and the output of a decoder which detects non-cacheable addresses (which are of data width different from the microprocessor data width). If a non-cacheable address is detected, the read signal from the cache controller through the logic unit is withheld from the microprocessor, which now waits to continue processing beyond the write until a ready signal is received from the addressed unit on the system bus.
Abstract:
A data processing system includes a microprocessor operable in a burst mode to read data from a memory. The memory, its controller and bus are operable in a pipelining mode. Array logic is connected between the microprocessor and the remaining elements for converting the burst mode to the pipeline mode.