SanDisk CompactFlash Extreme III User Manual
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SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual
ATA Register Set and Protocol
4.3
Memory Mapped Addressing
When CompactFlash Memory Card registers are accessed via memory references, they appear
in the common memory space window: 0-2K bytes as shown in Table 4-4.
Table 4-4
Memory Mapped Decoding
-REG
A10
A9-
A4
A3
A2
A1
A0
Offset
-OE=0
-WE=0
1
0
X
0
0
0
0
0
Even RD Data
a
Even WR Data
a
1
0
X
0
0
0
1
1
Error Register
b
Features
b
1
0
X
0
0
1
0
2
Sector Count
Sector Count
1
0
X
0
0
1
1
3
Sector No.
Sector No.
1
0
X
0
1
0
0
4
Cylinder Low
Cylinder Low
1
0
X
0
1
0
1
5
Cylinder High
Cylinder High
1
0
X
0
1
1
0
6
Select Card/Head
Select Card/Head
1
0
X
0
1
1
1
7
Status
Command
1
0
X
1
0
0
0
8
Dup Even RD Data
b
Dup Even WR Data
b
1
0
X
1
0
0
1
9
Dup Odd RD Data
b
Dup Odd WR Data
b
1
0
X
1
1
0
1
D
Dup Error
b
Dup Features
b
1
0
X
1
1
1
0
E
Alt Status
Device Ctl
1
0
X
1
1
1
1
F
Drive Address
Reserved
1
1
X
X
X
X
0
8
Even RD Data
c
Even WR Data
c
1
1
X
X
X
X
1
9
Odd RD Data
c
Even RD Data
c
a. Register 0 is accessed with -CE1 low and -CE2 low (and A0 = Do not care) as a word register on the
combined Odd Data Bus and Even Data Bus (D15-D0). This register may also be accessed by a pair
of byte accesses to the offset 0 with -CE1 low and -CE2 high. Note that the address space of this
word register overlaps the address space of the Error and Feature byte-wide registers that lie at off
set 1. When accessed twice as byte register with CE1 low, the first byte to be accessed is the even
byte of the word and the second byte accessed is the odd byte of the equivalent word access. A byte
access to register 0 with CE1 high and CE2 low accesses the error (read) or feature (write) register.
b. Registers at offset 8, 9 and D are non-overlapping duplicates of the registers at offset 0 and 1.
Register 8 is equivalent to register 0, while register 9 accesses the odd byte. Therefore, if the regis
ters are byte accessed in the order 9 then 8 the data will be transferred odd byte then even byte.
Repeated byte accesses to register 8 or 0 will access consecutive (even than odd) bytes from the
data buffer. Repeated word accesses to register 8, 9 or 0 will access consecutive words from the data
buffer. Repeated byte accesses to register 9 are not supported. However, repeated alternating byte
accesses to registers 8 then 9 will access consecutive (even then odd) bytes from the data buffer.
Byte accesses to register 9 access only the odd byte of the data.
c. Accesses to even addresses between 400h and 7FFh access register 8. Accesses to odd addresses
between 400h and 7FFh access register 9. This 1 KByte memory window to the data register is pro
vided so that hosts can perform memory to memory block moves to the data register when the regis
ter lies in memory space. Some hosts, such as the X86 processors, must increment both the source
and destination addresses when executing the memory to memory block move instruction. Some
PCMCIA socket adapters also have auto incrementing address logic embedded within them. This
address window allows these hosts and adapters to function efficiently.
Note that this entire window accesses the Data Register FIFO and does not allow random access to
the data buffer within the card.
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Rev. 12.0, 02/07