82C37A
Application Information
Figure 6 shows an application for a DMA system utilizing the
82C37A DMA controller and the 80C88 Microprocessor. In
this application, the 82C37A DMA controller is used to
improve system performance by allowing an I/O device to
transfer data directly to or from system memory.
Components
The system clock is generated by the 82C84A clock driver
and is inverted to meet the clock high and low times required
by the 82C37A DMA controller. The four OR gates are used
to support the 80C88 Microprocessor in minimum mode by
producing the control signals used by the processor to
access memory or I/O. A decoder is used to generate chip
select for the DMA controller and memory. The most signifi-
cant bits of the address are output on the address/data bus.
Therefore, the 82C82 octal latch is used to demultiplex the
address. Hold Acknowledge (HLDA) and Address Enable
(AEN) are “ORed” together to insure that the DMA controller
does not have bus contention with the microprocessor.
Operation
A DMA request (DREQ) is generated by the I/O device. After
receiving the DMA request, the DMA controller will issue a
Hold request (HRQ) to the processor. The system busses
are not released to the DMA controller until a Hold Acknowl-
edge signal is returned to the DMA controller from the
80C88 processor. After the Hold Acknowledge has been
received, addresses and control signals are generated by
the DMA controller to accomplish the DMA transfers. Data is
transferred directly from the I/O device to memory (or vice
versa) with IOR and MEMW (or MEMR and IOW) being
active. Note that data is not read into or driven out of the
DMA controller in I/O-to-memory or memory-to-I/O data
transfers.
V
CC
MEMCS
HLDA
82C84A
OR
82C85
CLK
DECODER
ADDRESS BUS
HLDA
HRQ
AX
ALE
AD0
V
CC
AD7
M/IO
RD
WR MN/MX
80C88
47kΩ
MEMR
MEMW
MEMORY
IOR
IOW
MEMCS
MEMR
MEMW
DATA BUS
I/O
DEVICE
IOR
IOW
ADDRESS BUS
CS
DREQ
STB
OE
82C82
DATA BUS
V
CC
OE
STB
82C82
A0-7
DB0-7
82C37A
CLK
CS
ADSTB
AEN
EOP
HLDA
IOR
IOW
MEMR
MEMW
HRQ
DREQ0
DACK
NOTE:
The address lines need pull-up resistors.
FIGURE 6. APPLICATION FOR DMA SYSTEM
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