Dma control (dcntl), Control (dcntl), Dma control – LSI 53C875A User Manual

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Registers

For more information on interrupts, see

Chapter 2, “Functional

Description”

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Register: 0x3A

Scratch Byte Register (SBR)
Read/Write

SBR

Scratch Byte Register

[7:0]

This is a general purpose register. Apart from CPU
access, only register Read/Write and Memory Moves into
this register alter its contents. The default value of this
register is zero. This register is called the DMA Watchdog
Timer on previous LSI53C8XX family products.

Register: 0x3B

DMA Control (DCNTL)
Read/Write

CLSE

Cache Line Size Enable

7

Setting this bit enables the LSI53C875A to sense and
react to cache line boundaries set up by the

DMA Mode

(DMODE)

or PCI

Cache Line Size

register, whichever

contains the smaller value. Clearing this bit disables the
cache line size logic and the LSI53C875A monitors the
cache line size using the DMODE register.

PFF

Prefetch Flush

6

Setting this bit causes the prefetch unit to flush its
contents. The bit clears after the flush is complete.

PFEN

Prefetch Enable

5

Setting this bit enables an 8-Dword SCRIPTS instruction
prefetch unit. The prefetch unit, when enabled, will fetch
8 Dwords of instructions and instruction operands in
bursts of 4 or 8 Dwords. Prefetching instructions allows

7

0

SBR

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

CLSE

PFF

PFEN

SSM

IRQM

STD

IRQD

COM

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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