53C96 Datasheet PDF

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The HPSC is designed to minimize host intervention by implementing common SCSI sequences in hardware. An on-chip state machine reduces protocol overheads by performing the required sequences in response to a single command from the host. Selection, reselection, information transfer and disconnection commands are directly supported. The 16-byte-internal FIFO further assists in minimizing host involvement. The FIFO provides a temporary storage for all command, data, status and message bytes as they are transferred between the 16 bit host data bus and the 8 bit SCSI data bus. During DMA operations the FIFO acts as a buffer to allow greater latency in the DMA channel. This permits the DMA channel to be suspended for higher priority operations such as DRAM refresh or reception of an ISDN packet. Parity on the DMA bus is optional. Parity can either be generated and checked or it can be simply passed through. The patented GLITCH EATER Circuitry in the High Performance SCSI Controller detects signal changes that are less than or equal to 15 ns and filters them out.