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- From: stigvi@Lise.Unit.NO (Stig Vidar Hovland)
- Subject: Re: 030 sync cycles (was : A1200 versus Falcon 030 once again)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.135725.4674@ugle.unit.no>
- Keywords: STERM
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <H.6a78NGVZTA2@fredrik.atari.no> <1982@enst.enst.fr>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:57:25 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1982@enst.enst.fr>, elendir@inf.enst.fr writes:
- > Joern Moe writes
- > ] In the falcon they use sync
- > ] mode on a 16 bit bus. This gives a 4 clock cycle for each longword
- > ] access to the bus. This implies a 25% reduction in performance, not 50%.
- >
- > That is wrong. Synchrone cycles on the 68030 (i.e. those terminated by STERM
- > rather than DSACK) must be 32-bit wide. Refer to the 030 User s Manual. There
- > is no other way than DSACK to end a 16-bit wide exchange.
- >
- Mr. Joern Moe has probably circuit diagrams for the Falcon and in that case
- he should know what he is talking aboat. With additional hardware, it is possible
- to terminate an access to 16 bit memory with STERM.
-
- Stig Vidar Hovland - stigvi@lise.unit.no
-