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US 5,291,456 AGranted
Data storage control device
AssigneeSeikosha Co., Ltd.
InventorKoichi Sugino
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Abstract
A data storage control device including a DRAM and a storage device has an address bus common to the DRAM and the storage device, and a control device for selectively applying an address signal relating to the DRAM and another address signal relating to the storage device to the address bus.
Claims10
In a data storage control device including a dynamic RAM and storage means, each of which has address input terminals, and control means for addressing said dynamic RAM and storage means, the improvement wherein:
- said control means is comprised of a processing means, a dynamic RAM control means and a selector means, for controlling access to said dynamic RAM and said storage means;
- said processing means having data bus and address bus commonly used for said dynamic RAM and said storage means;
- said address bus having N address lines, n.sub.1 of said N address lines comprising a selection signal and n.sub.2 of said N address lines other than said n.sub.1 lines being directly connected to n.sub.2 address input terminals of said storage means, wherein N, n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 are integers, (N>n.sub.1 .ltoreq.1) and (N>n.sub.2);
- means applying said n.sub.1 lines to said dynamic RAM control means, whereby, when said n.sub.1 of said N address lines has a first value, said dynamic RAM control means is activated, generates an RAS signal and a CAS signal for direct application to said dynamic RAM, and selectively generates address signals responsive to signals from said address bus;
- said selector means having n.sub.3 address lines directly connected to address input terminals of said dynamic RAM and also connected to remaining address input terminals other than said n.sub.2 address input terminals of said storage means, said selector means comprising means for selectively supplying said address signals from said dynamic RAM control means to said n.sub.3 address lines for the dynamic RAM in response to said first value of said n.sub.1 of said N address lines, and means for applying a part of the address signals from said dynamic RAM control means to said n.sub.3 address lines for said storage means in response to a second value of said n.sub.1 of said N address line wherein n.sub.3 is an integer and (N=n.sub.1 +n.sub.2 +n.sub.3);
- said storage means being accessed by said address signals from said n.sub.3 address lines in conjunction with said remaining address signals from said n.sub.2 of others of said N address lines.
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A data storage control device including a dynamic RAM and a storage means other than dynamic RAM, each of which has address input terminals, the improvement comprising:
- an address bus having N address lines, including a first line and n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 second and third lines, respectively, said first, second and third lines being separate from one another, wherein N, n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 are integers;
- control means comprising means for generating N address signals and applying said N address signals to separate ones of said N address lines, said third address lines being directly connected to separate first address input terminals of said storage means;
- said first address line being coupled to a selection input of said storage means to enable said storage means in response to a first level of said first address line;
- DRAM controller means coupled to said first address line for enabling said dynamic RAM in response to a second level of said first address line;
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- selector means responsive to said first level of said first address line for coupling said second address lines to separate second address terminals of said storage means and responsive to said second level of said first address line for sequentially coupling different address lines through said second address lines to a common set of address terminals of said dynamic RAM.
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In a data storage control device including a dynamic RAM and a storage means other than dynamic RAM, each of which has address input terminals, said storage means having enabling input terminal means, the improvement comprising:
- control means;
- an address bus coupled to said control means and having N address lines, wherein N is an integer;
- means coupling n.sub.1 of said N address lines to separate address input terminals of said storage means and coupling one second line of said N address lines, different from said n.sub.1 lines to said enabling input terminal means of said storage means, for enabling said storage means at a first signal level of said second address line, wherein N>n.sub.1 ;
- DRAM controller means coupled to said second address line for enabling said dynamic RAM in response to a second level of said second address line;
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- selector means for coupling n.sub.2 of said N address lines to address said dynamic RAM, wherein n.sub.2 is an integer, and said n.sub.2 lines are different from said second line and said n.sub.1 lines, and N=n.sub.1 +n.sub.2 +1.
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