MPC555 / MPC556
BURST BUFFER
MOTOROLA
USER’S MANUAL
Rev. 15 October 2000
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SECTION 4
BURST BUFFER
The burst buffer module consists of the burst buffer controller (BBC) and the instruc-
tion memory protection unit (IMPU).
The BBC delivers the RCPU instruction fetch accesses from the instruction bus onto
the U-bus. It utilizes the full U-bus pipeline and a special page access attribute in order
to take full advantage of the U-bus bandwidth. It can handle both burstable and non-
burstable external memories as well as non-burstable internal memories (flash EE-
PROM, SRAM).
Code compression features are only available on the MPC556. The MPC556 utilizes
a version of code compression / decompression which is called “Phase A”. Phase A
code compression / decompression is described in this manual. Future parts may have
a different type of code compression. The BBC also contains the functional module
which is called the instruction code decompressor unit (ICDU). The ICDU is responsi-
ble for on-line (previously compressed) instruction code decompression in the “De-
compression-ON” mode. In the “Decompression-OFF” mode, the ICDU is bypassed
and the BBC is in normal function.
The IMPU allows the memory to be divided into four regions with different attributes,
as well as a default global region (for memory space that is not included in either of the
two regions). Each of the two regions can be of size four Kbytes to four Gbytes. Over-
lap between regions is allowed.
The IMPU includes registers that contain the following information: region base ad-
dress, region size and the region’s access permissions. For each access (from the
processor to the memory), the IMPU finds which region matches the address. If more
than one region matches, the region with the lowest index is chosen. If no region is
matched, the global region is chosen.
The IMPU compares the attributes of the access from the processor to the attributes
of the appropriate region. If the access is allowed, the proper signals are sent to the
BBC. If the access is not permitted, an interrupt is sent to the processor.
The IMPU does not support address translation. The effective fetch address issued by
the processor is the one that is transferred to the U-bus.
4.1 Burst Buffer Block Diagram
is a block diagram of the burst buffer.
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