[54] DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING PCI AND VMEBUS WITH A BYTE SWAPPING CIRCUIT
[76] Inventors: Jeff Goode, 141 Loworn La.,
Huntsville, Ala. 35805; Stevens Robert, 128 Park Meadow Dr., Madison, Ala. 35758
[21] Appl. No.: 08/911,564 [22] Filed: Aug. 14, 1997
[51] Int. CI.7 G06F 12/10; G06F 13/00
[52] U.S. CI 710/129; 710/128; 710/100
[58] Field of Search 395/500, 325,
395/309; 71/129, 128, 100, 106
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Black, John, "A Few Words From the Editor Byte Ordering Problems: Don't Let Them Catch You by Surprise", VMEbus System, Mar-Apr. 1987, pp. 31-36.
A byte-swapping circuit is provides for interlacing PCI systems to VMEbus systems. The circuit allows the PCI bus to selectively enable or disable byte swapping whether the VMEbus system is in master mode or slave mode. Also, the circuit delays the assertion ol the DS0/DS1 VMEbus signals until alter the byte swapping circuit has completed its operation, thus avoiding violations ol the VMEbus timing specification. Finally, the circuit optimizes its performance during block transler operations by maintaining its byteswapping configuration constant during each bus cycle in a given block transler. Thus, the circuit configures itself for the first bus cycle, but eliminates the reconfiguration delay for each bus cycle afterwards. The circuit can also byte-swap data bytes being transferred on the address bus during multiplexed block transfer cycles.
18 Claims, 10 Drawing Sheets
