摘要:
A logic control system is disclosed for accommodating the flow of both procedural information and CPU (central processing unit) instructions from a central memory system to a CPU without compromising memory bandwidths or CPU execution speeds because of transfer delays or timing variances. Instruction modifications and plural task assignments are accommodated during instruction execution.
摘要:
This disclosure relates to a control system for transferring binary words from a memory system. One thirty two bit double word may be loaded into a selected two of four sixteen bit registers. As a first of the two selected registers is read, another thirty two bit word may be loaded into the unselected registers. Alternatively, sixteen bit single words may be loaded into and read from the registers. When a word has procedural information, it is read from the registers onto a CPU control bus via a multiplexer. When a word is an encoded computer instruction to the CPU, it is read from the registers into a logic unit via a multiplexer. A decoded instruction from the logic unit is read onto a CPU control bus.
摘要:
A cache memory for use in a data processing system wherein data words identified by even address numbers are stored separately from data words associated with odd address numbers to enable the simultaneous transfer of two successively addressed data words to or from the cache memory by the transferring of a data word associated with an odd address number and a data word associated with an even address number.
摘要:
A control store included in a data processing system for storing microinstructions in a plurality of microinstructions storage locations is organized in two parts, an upper bank and a lower bank. The lower bank is directly addressed by a portion of the currently addressed control store word, whereas the upper bank is addressed by use of a multiplexer, with inputs thereto coupled from various logic elements. Apparatus is included to determine which part of the control store will be selected and to allow such determination at a time substantially after the addresses for the first and second parts have been received by the control store. In addition, the elements included in the upper bank are selected to have address propagation time sufficiently faster than the address propagation time of the lower bank to compensate for the additional logic propagation delay introduced by the multiplexer so that the contents of the addressed locations of the upper and lower banks are available for use by the system at substantially the same time.
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 indexed 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. One of the test conditions indicating whether some of the addressing values used in the generation of the effective address are in a short address format or in a long address format. The address control store word provides signals for controlling the operation of the system, including the branch in 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:
A plurality of trap save areas are linked to form a pool of such areas from which an area may be loaded with context from various sources in response to a trap condition, such as the addressing of unuseable memory, the loaded area unlinked from the pool, and various pointers changed to reflect such unlinking. The unlinked area is associated with the process which was executing at the time of the occurrence of the trap condition by effectively being coupled to the interrupt level of such process. Independent of the interrupt level, a trap handler routine, specific to the nature of the trap condition, is executed following which the unlinked area is returned to the pool and the various pointers changed to reflect such return.
摘要:
A data processing system includes a microprogram controlled central processing unit that executes instructions. The instruction words include a data type field for identifying the type of operand processed during the execution of the instruction. The data type field signals and a number of control signals are applied to the address terminals of a read only memory. The read only memory output signals are tested by microwords of a microprogram to branch to firmware routines to process the operand type.
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:
In a data processing system, a system memory includes first memory modules having a data path of a first bit width and second memory modules having a data path of a second bit width with the first bit width being less than the second bit width. A central subsystem includes a cache memory unit and processing units for initiating requests for data transfers of the second bit width between the system memory and the subsystem processing units. An interface coupling the system memory and the central subsystem for bidirectional data transfers generates, in response to a memory request of a second bit width wherein the requested data is stored in a first memory module, additional memory requests until sufficient data has been retrieved from the system memory to satisfy the central subsystem request. The interface also monitors data transfers between the system processing units and the system memory and transfers the data transfers to the central subsystem in order to update and to retain the integrity of the cache memory in the central subsystem.
摘要:
A first bank or a second bank of storage locations of a control store of a data processing system is enabled in response to one of a plurality of test signals received as parallel inputs by two multiplexer devices. Only one of the multiplexers is enabled at a given time in response to the polarity of one of the test signals selected from the inputs of the multiplexer devices.