Bus system and information processing system including bus system
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorsKenichiro Anjo, Atsushi Okamura
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AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorsKenichiro Anjo, Atsushi Okamura
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In a bus connection circuit for connecting buses having different bit widths, number of clock cycles can be reduced, and hardware amount can be reduced. The bus connection circuit connects buses of mutually different bit widths having control lines and data lines connected to a bus master unit and bus slave unit. The control command lines of the buses are connected to a common control command bus to control command information on the buses. The data lines of the buses are connected via a data conversion unit to perform bit width conversion between the buses. An arbitration circuit is provided to perform arbitration of bus right for the buses in response arbitration request. Upon transfer of data between the buses, by obtaining of bus right by sender side bus, write access and rear access between buses is performed.
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The present application has been filed with claiming priority based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2000-100573, filed on Apr. 2, 2002. Disclosure of the above-identified Japanese Patent Application are herein incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a bus system and an information processing system including the bus system. More particularly, the invention relates to a bus system and an information processing system using control command line in common between a plurality of buses having different bit widths and having a data conversion unit performing data transfer between buses with conversion of bit widths.
The present invention will be understood more fully from the detailed description given hereinafter and from the accompanying drawings of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, which, however, should not be taken to be limitative to the invention, but are for explanation and understanding only.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a construction of the first embodiment of a bus system according to the present invention;
The present invention will be discussed hereinafter in detail in terms of the preferred embodiments of a bus system, a bus connection circuit, an information processing system employing the bus system or the bus connection system according to the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be obvious, however, to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instance, well-known structure are not shown in detail in order to avoid unnecessary obscurity of the present invention.
Typical embodiments of the present invention will be discussed hereinafter with reference to FIG. 1.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention is generally constructed with a data conversion unit provided between a bus 1 and a bus 2, a common command bus 50 connecting a control command line of the bus 1 and a control command line of the bus 2, and an arbitration circuit provided in common for a bus master unit and a bus slave unit connected to the bus 1 and the bus 2.