IDT7005S/L
High-Speed 8K x 8 Dual-Port Static RAM
Military, Industrial and Commercial Temperature Ranges
SLAVE
Dual Port
RAM
MASTER
Dual Port
RAM
CE
CE
BUSY (L) BUSY (R)
BUSY (L) BUSY (R)
MASTER
Dual Port
RAM
SLAVE
Dual Port
RAM
CE
CE
BUSY (R)
BUSY (R)
BUSY (L) BUSY (R)
BUSY (L)
BUSY (L)
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Figure 3. Busy and chip enable routing for both width and depth expansion with IDT7005 RAMs.
BusyLogic
address signals only. It ignores whether an access is a read or write.
In a master/slave array, both address and chip enable must be valid
long enough for a BUSY flag to be output from the master before the
actualwritepulsecanbeinitiatedwiththeR/Wsignal.Failuretoobserve
thistimingcanresultinaglitchedinternalwriteinhibitsignalandcorrupted
dataintheslave.
BusyLogicprovidesahardwareindicationthatbothportsoftheRAM
haveaccessedthesamelocationatthesametime.Italsoallowsoneofthe
twoaccessestoproceedandsignalstheothersidethattheRAMis“busy”.
The BUSYpincanthenbeusedtostalltheaccessuntiltheoperationon
theothersideiscompleted.Ifawriteoperationhasbeenattemptedfrom
thesidethatreceivesaBUSYindication,thewritesignalisgatedinternally
topreventthewritefromproceeding.
TheuseofBUSYlogicisnotrequiredordesirableforallapplications.
InsomecasesitmaybeusefultologicallyORtheBUSYoutputstogether
and use any BUSY indication as an interrupt source to flag the event of
anillegalorillogicaloperation.IfthewriteinhibitfunctionofBUSYlogicis
notdesirable,theBUSYlogiccanbedisabledbyplacingthepartinslave
modewiththeM/Spin.OnceinslavemodetheBUSYpinoperatessolely
asawriteinhibitinputpin.Normaloperationcanbeprogrammedbytying
the BUSY pins HIGH. If desired, unintended write operations can be
prevented to a port by tying the BUSY pin for that port LOW.
TheBUSYoutputsontheIDT7005RAMinmastermode,arepush-
pulltypeoutputsanddonotrequirepullupresistorstooperate. Ifthese
RAMs are being expanded in depth, then the BUSY indication for the
resulting array requires the use of an external AND gate.
Semaphores
TheIDT7005isanextremelyfastDual-Port8Kx8CMOSStaticRAM
withanadditional8addresslocationsdedicatedtobinarysemaphoreflags.
TheseflagsalloweitherprocessorontheleftorrightsideoftheDual-Port
RAMtoclaimaprivilegeovertheotherprocessorforfunctionsdefinedby
thesystemdesigner’ssoftware.Asanexample,thesemaphorecanbe
usedbyoneprocessortoinhibittheotherfromaccessingaportionofthe
Dual-Port RAM or any other shared resource.
The Dual-Port RAM features a fast access time, and both ports are
completelyindependentofeachother.Thismeansthattheactivityonthe
leftportinnowayslowstheaccesstimeoftherightport. Bothportsare
identicalinfunctiontostandardCMOSStaticRAMandcanbereadfrom,
orwrittento,atthesametimewiththeonlypossibleconflictarisingfromthe
simultaneous writing of, or a simultaneous READ/WRITE of, a non-
semaphorelocation.Semaphoresareprotectedagainstsuchambiguous
situationsandmaybeusedbythesystemprogramtoavoidanyconflicts
inthenon-semaphoreportionoftheDual-PortRAM.Thesedeviceshave
anautomaticpower-downfeaturecontrolledbyCE,theDual-PortRAM
enable,andSEM,thesemaphoreenable.TheCEandSEMpinscontrol
on-chip power down circuitry that permits the respective port to go into
standbymodewhennotselected. Thisistheconditionwhichisshownin
Truth Table I where CE and SEM are both HIGH.
SystemswhichcanbestusetheIDT7005containmultipleprocessors
or controllers and are typically very high-speed systems which are
softwarecontrolledorsoftwareintensive.Thesesystemscanbenefitfrom
aperformanceincreaseofferedbytheIDT7005'shardwaresemaphores,
whichprovidealockoutmechanismwithoutrequiringcomplexprogram-
ming.
Width Expansion with Busy Logic
Master/SlaveArrays
WhenexpandinganIDT7005RAMarrayinwidthwhileusingBUSY
logic,onemasterpartisusedtodecidewhichsideoftheRAMarraywill
receivea BUSYindication,andtooutputthatindication.Anynumberof
slavestobeaddressedinthesameaddressrangeasthemaster,usethe
BUSYsignalasawriteinhibitsignal.ThusontheIDT7005RAMtheBUSY
pinisanoutputifthepartisusedasamaster(M/Spin=VIH),andtheBUSY
pin is an input if the part used as a slave (M/S pin = VIL) as shown in
Figure 3.
Iftwoormoremasterpartswereusedwhenexpandinginwidth,asplit
decisioncouldresultwithonemasterindicatingBUSY ononesideofthe
arrayandanothermasterindicating BUSYononeothersideofthearray.
Thiswouldinhibitthewriteoperationsfromoneportforpartofawordand
inhibitthewriteoperationsfromtheotherportfortheotherpartoftheword.
The BUSY arbitration on a master is based on the chip enable and
Softwarehandshakingbetweenprocessorsoffersthemaximumin
systemflexibilitybypermittingsharedresourcestobeallocatedinvarying
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