摘要:
In a system which includes a common bus to which a plurality of units are connected for the transfer of information, such as a data processing system, information may be transferred by the highest priority unit during an asynchronously generated bus transfer cycle. Logic is provided for enabling a first unit, such as a central processor, to make a multiple fetch request of a second unit, such as a memory, during a first transfer cycle. The multiple fetch request requests the second unit to transfer multiple parts of data to the first unit during multiple further transfer cycles, wherein one part of data is transferred in each further transfer cycle. Logic is provided in the second unit to enable the second unit to indicate to the first unit, except during the last further transfer cycle, that each further transfer cycle will be followed by another further transfer cycle. Logic is provided in the first unit to enable the first unit to accept less parts of data than originally requested in the multiple fetch request. This permits the first unit to make multiple fetch requests of other units on the bus without regard to whether the other units are capable of performing multiple fetch operations and eliminates the need for abnormal condition recovery logic in the second unit. Logic is also provided to permit the first unit to utilize each part of data as it is received by the first unit without requiring the first unit to wait for the last transfer cycle before using any of the received parts of data.
摘要:
An emulator executes on a second data processing system as a second system user level process including a first system user level program, a first system executive program, and first system user and executive tasks. An emulator level is interposed between the second system user level process and a kernel level and contains pseudo device drivers. Each pseudo device driver corresponds to a first system input/output device. The kernel level includes kernel processes, each kernel process corresponding to a pseudo device driver. The second system hardware platform includes a plurality of second system input/output devices, wherein each second system input output device corresponds to a kernel process. Each combination of a pseudo device driver, a corresponding kernel process and a corresponding second system input/output device executes in a second system process and emulates the operations of a corresponding first system input/output task and the corresponding first system input/output device. The pseudo device drivers are constructed of a plurality of pseudo device queues, a return queue and a queue manager.
摘要:
A memory controller in which a number of local memories are primarily dedicated to the shared use of a number of local processors of a data processing system to increase the efficiency of use of both the processors and memories. A controller is associated with each local memory to control connection of any one of the local processors to its associated local memory. A local processor can also be connected via a controller and an adapter circuit connected to the controller to a system bus to obtain access to circuits connected thereto. In addition, a system processor connected to the system bus may also be connected to any particular one of the local memories via its associated controller and adapter connected thereto to load data or programs into the local memory for use by the local processors, and to read out the results of previous processing done by the local processors.
摘要:
A data selection matrix is disclosed which uses a plurality of programmed array logic (PAL) units having input thereto portions of binary words from a plurality of sources, the PALs being responsive to control words also input thereto to jointly select one of said sources of binary words and to select the arrangement of the portions of the binary words being input thereto from the selected source of binary words.
摘要:
What is disclosed is a time partitioned bus arrangement for use in a computer system wherein different circuits therein are interconnected by a plurality of busses and operation is such that information to be processed can be read out of one circuit, processed in some manner in another circuit, and the processed information be stored in the same or another circuit all within one cycle of a system clock in the computer system, and without the need for bus control circuits and bus interfaces in the circuitry connected to the busses. Some of the circuits have their input/output connected to only a single one of the busses, while other circuits have their input connected to one bus and their output connected to a different bus, and yet other circuits have either their input or output connected to one of the busses and their other input/output connected to circuitry external to the bus arrangement. Some of the processor circuits have a control lead input that is energized by the clock signal output from the system clock so that they accept information from one bus to which their input is connected during a first polarity portion of a clock cycle and return either unprocessed or processed information to another bus during a second polarity portion of a clock cycle.
摘要:
A logic control system comprised of a cache memory system and a transfer control logic unit is disclosed for accommodating the flow of both procedural information and CPU (central processing unit) instructions from a central memory system on a common communication bus to a CPU. The CPU and the transfer control logic unit communicate by way of the cache memory system with the common communication bus. In response to a CPU request to the central memory system, procedural information and instructions are requested by the transfer control logic unit from the cache memory system and presented to the CPU in such a manner as to avoid interruptions in CPU activity caused by information transfer delays.
摘要:
The performance of a scientific ADD instruction is improved by storing the mantissas of both operands in each of two random access memories, selecting the mantissa with the smaller exponent, shifting that mantissa and performing the ADD operation of adding the mantissas in one machine cycle.
摘要:
A final effective address of an operand is generated in a microprogrammed data processing system by use of a base address register which may include an unindexed address, an index register which may include an index address value, an instruction register which may include an instruction word, which instruction word provides control over the addressing of a control store dependent upon the state of a selected one of a plurality of test conditions. The addressed control store word provides signals for controlling the operation of the system, including the branching between such major operations as instruction fetching, addressing, reading, writing, and execution as well as branching between minor operations which are included in the major operations.
摘要:
In a data processing system a cache memory comprises level one and level two even and odd data stores and level one and level two even and odd directory stores. The directory stores include a plurality of storage locations for storing the most significant bits of the address numbers associated with the data words stored in the level one and level two even and odd data stores. The level one and level two even and odd directory stores are addressed by the least significant bits of the address numbers. Comparator circuits compare the high order bits of an address number supplied in a memory request to the high order bits stored in the level one even and odd directory stores at storage locations identified by both the low order bits of the address supplied in the memory request and the low order address bits incremented by one. A hit detector circuit determines whether one, both, or none of the requested words are stored in the cache memory by analyzing the outputs of the comparators.
摘要:
A data processing system for providing word, byte or bit addressing. A word location in a memory device may be addressed based upon the contents of a base address register. Indirect addressing may be provided to another word location based upon a word index value in an index register. Effective byte or bit addressing of the addressed word is provided in response to byte and bit index values which are produced by means of the index register. An instruction word indicates the type of addressing and directs the use of different control words included in a control storage device in order to implement the desired operation.