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Table 2.1 external memory support – Avago Technologies LSI8751D User Manual

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External Memory Interface

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updates are required, a 7406 (high voltage open collector inverter), an
MTD4P05, and several passive components are also needed. The
memory size and speed is determined by pull-down resistors on the
8-bit bidirectional memory bus at power-up. The LSI53C875 senses this
bus shortly after the release of the Reset signal and configures the ROM
Base Address register and the memory cycle state machines for the
appropriate conditions.

The external memory interface works with a variety of ROM sizes and
speeds. An example set of interface drawings is in

Appendix B, “External

Memory Interface Diagram Examples.”

The LSI53C875 supports a variety of sizes and speeds of expansion
ROM, using pull-down resistors on the MAD[3:0] pins. The encoding of
pins MAD[3:1] allows the user to define how much external memory is
available to the LSI53C875.

Table 2.1

shows the memory space

associated with the possible values of MAD[3:1]. The MAD[3:1] pins are
fully defined in

Chapter 4, “Signal Descriptions.”

To use one of the configurations mentioned above in a host adapter
board design, put 4.7 k

pull-down resistors on the MAD pins

corresponding to the available memory space. For example, to connect
to a 32 Kbytes external ROM, use pull-downs on MAD[3] and MAD[2]. If
the external memory interface is not used, then no external resistors are

Table 2.1

External Memory Support

MAD[3:1]

Available Memory Space

000

16 Kbytes

001

32 Kbytes

010

64 Kbytes

011

128 Kbytes

100

256 Kbytes

101

512 Kbytes

110

1024 Kbytes

111

No external memory present

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