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US 5,396,599 AGranted
Computer system with a bus controller
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorsDavid Cobbs, Stephen R. Williams
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Abstract
A programmable digital circuit is provided for bus control of a fast microprocessor such as a V33 microprocessor. The digital circuit includes a bus controller, a wait state controller and a clock generator generating a processor clock and a system clock with but a small skew between them.
Claims4
A computer system comprising:
- a microprocessor providing address information and information about a start and type of its bus cycle;
- a memory:
- a latch for controllably latching said address information and for providing latched address information:
- a bus controller responsive to said bus cycle information and to a processor clock, for asserting a first signal indicating said address information provided by said microprocessor to be valid, wherein said first signal controls said latch so that:
- when said first signal is asserted, said latch latches said microprocessor address information;
- and
- when said first signal is deasserted, said latch is transparent to said microprocessor address information;
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- a memory control circuit having a first input for receiving said address information in an unlatched condition, a second input for receiving said first signal, and a third input for receiving said bus cycle information, said memory control circuit being responsive to signals at said first, second, and third inputs for providing a second signal for selectively enabling said memory, said memory control circuit further being responsive to the signal at said second input for latching said second signal.
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