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

fYear

1989

fDate

17-19 May 1989

Firstpage

376

Lastpage

379

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications, 1989. Proceedings of Technical Papers. 1989 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTSA.1989.68649

Filename

68649