Title :
An advanced Winchester disk controller
Author :
Lee, Jiin ; Her, Tzong-Dar ; Lin, Chun-Mei ; Huang, Po-Chuan ; Chen, Tain-Rein ; Jan, Jun-Wei
Author_Institution :
Electron. Res. & Service Organ, Hsing-Chu, Taiwan
Abstract :
A description is given of the ERSO advanced Winchester disk controller (AWDC), a high-speed microprogrammable data path controller. It can be combined in a circuit with standard local processor and SRAM/DRAM chips to build a very-high-performance multimedia controller including SCSI, ESDI, ST506, ST412, SMD and floppy disk interfaces. The AWDC chip architecture is discussed, covering the LuP interface, host interface, buffer interface and priority resolver, peripheral interface, encoder/decoder and serializer/deserializer, sequencer RAM, ECC/CRC, and FIFO and clock control block
Keywords :
add-on boards; computer interfaces; hard discs; ECC/CRC; ESDI; FIFO; LuP interface; SCSI; SMD; SRAM/DRAM chips; ST412; ST506; advanced Winchester disk controller; buffer interface; chip architecture; clock control block; encoder/decoder; floppy disk interfaces; high-speed microprogrammable data path controller; host interface; local processor; peripheral interface; priority resolver; sequencer RAM; serializer/deserializer; very-high-performance multimedia controller; Circuits; Cyclic redundancy check; Decoding; Electronics industry; Industrial control; Industrial electronics; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Registers; Winches;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications, 1989. Proceedings of Technical Papers. 1989 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
DOI :
10.1109/VTSA.1989.68649
