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- From: dfields@hydra.urbana.mcd.mot.com (David Fields)
- Subject: Re: ?Concurrent DMA possible on smarter PC buses (EISA/MCA/Localbus)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.153141.3926@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Keywords: EISA,MCA,Localbus,VESA,PC,IBM,smartIO
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- Organization: Motorola, Inc. Computer Group
- References: <1gntdfINNu7@cbl.umd.edu> <1992Dec16.211712.13142@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:31:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.211712.13142@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>, simonich@croatia.eng.hou.compaq.com (Chris Simonich) writes:
- > In article <1gntdfINNu7@cbl.umd.edu> mike@cbl.umd.edu (Michael Santangelo) writes:
- >>Can EISA, MicroChannel, or the new VESA LocalBus on PC's allow
- >multiple controllers plugged into them (say two smart bus mastering
- >>SCSI disk controllers on one of these buses) xfer data simultaneously
- >>to main memory (DMA)?
- >>
- >Generally, shared bus architectures are shared by time-division multiplexing.
- >In short, only one device may use the "bus" at a time, so the answer to your
- >question is No.
-
- I read waht he said and wasn't so sure from the example he gave that the
- question he asked is the one he wanted to ask. To controllers can be doing
- DMA trnasfers at the same time byspliting the transfers into smaller chunks
- and doing the "time-division multiplexing" of the bus via an arbitraition
- scheme.
-
- >There was a post about a new I/O architecture from Compaq. This architecture
- >does allow multiple controllers to perform simultaneously.
-
- If the MIOC in Compaq's proposal is implemented with a multi-port interface
- to main memory then it will. You would loose some on cost of course.
- --
- Dave Fields Motorola Computer Group dfields@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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