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PSD4XX Family

The PSD4XX

Architecture

(cont.)

Figure 34. Port A In Peripheral I/O Mode

PSEL0

PSEL1

D0 – D7

PA0 – PA7

9.4.5 Peripheral I/O

The Peripheral I/O Mode is one of the operating modes of Port A. In this mode, Port A

is connected to the data bus of peripheral devices. Port A is enabled only when

the microcontroller is accessing the devices, otherwise the Port is tri-stated. This feature

enables the microcontroller to access external devices without requiring buffers and

decoders. Figure 34 shows the structure of Port A in the Peripheral I/O Mode.

The memory address space occupied by the devices are defined by two signals: PSEL0

and PSEL1. The signals are direct outputs from the Decoding PLD (DPLD). Whenever any

of the signals is active, the Port A driver is enabled, and the direction of the data flow is

determined by the RD/WR signals.

The Peripheral I/O Mode and the peripheral select signals are configured and defined in the

PSDsoft Software (see the section on I/O Port for configuration). The PIO bit in the VM

Mode.

The Peripheral I/O mode can be used, for example, in DMA applications where the

microcontroller does not support DMA operations, such as tri-stating the address/data bus.

Figure 35 shows a block diagram of a microcontroller and PSD4XX based design that

makes use of this mode. In this application, the microcontroller has a multiplexed bus which

is connected to the ADIO port. The C and D ports connect to the peripheral address bus

and are both configured in Address Out Mode. Port A is configured in the Peripheral I/O

mode and is connected to the peripheral data bus. Ports B and E are used to generate

control signals.

During normal activity, the microcontroller has access to any peripheral (memory or I/O

device) through the PSD4XX device. When there is a DMA request, the

microcontroller tri-states the address bus on Ports C and D by writing a “0” to the port

Direction Registers. The DMA controller then takes over the data and address buses after

receiving acknowledgement from the microcontroller.

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