Motorola Corporation

Yeivin Yoram

Eliezer Weitz

Boaz Shachar

Rudin Yehuda

Rozen Nahum

Shachar Boaz

A high speed multichannel HDLC framing machine (112) cycles through Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) channels identifying a channel table (188) for each channel. HDLC state, data to be framed, and a mask are loaded into registers (176, 178), and the framer/deframer (112) is activated. The framer/deframer (112) returns an updated HDLC state, status flags, and a framed code word. The framed code word is multiplexed in a FIFO queue (58) for output on the high speed TDM line (28). A high speed multichannel HDLC deframing machine (112) receives a series of code words from a FIFO queue (56). For each code word received, a corresponding channel table (188) is identified. HDLC state, the code word to be deframed and, a mask are loaded into registers (176, 178), and the framer/deframer (112) is activated. The framer/deframer returns an updated HDLC state, status flags, and potentially a deframed data word.

Multichannel HDLC framing/deframing machine

A processor (50) is coupled to a plurality of peripherals (56 and 58) via an address bus (54) and a data bus (52). The peripherals (56 and 58) contain base address registers (BARs) (68 and 70). The peripherals (56 and 58) are either identical peripherals or similar peripherals wherein the BARs (68 and 70) are addressed via the same address within the system. In order to allow for each peripheral (56 and 58) to be written with a unique BAR value (in order to allow each peripheral to have a separate and distinct address space), the storage devices (64 and 66) are provided. When a data value is sent on the data bus (52) which has a set D0 bit and a cleared D1 bit, the device (64) is set to an asserted state and the device (66) is set to a deasserted state. This asserted state on device (64) allows the BAR (68) to be written on the next write operation if the address provided via address bus (54) corresponds to the BARs (68 and 70) while device (66) preempts BAR (70) from being written due to it's deasserted state. This method can be used for systems with no BARs and for N peripherals wherein N is a finite integer greater than zero.

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