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Section 9 Bus State Controller
Page 364 of 2108 R01UH0134EJ0400 Rev. 4.00
Sep 24, 2014
SH7262 Group, SH7264 Group
9.5.12 Bus Arbitration
The bus arbitration of this LSI has the bus mastership in the normal state and releases the bus
mastership after receiving a bus request from another device.
Bus mastership is transferred at the boundary of bus cycles. Namely, bus mastership is released
immediately after receiving a bus request when a bus cycle is not being performed. The release of
bus mastership is delayed until the bus cycle is complete when a bus cycle is in progress. Even
when from outside the LSI it looks like a bus cycle is not being performed, a bus cycle may be
performing internally, started by inserting wait cycles between access cycles. Therefore, it cannot
be immediately determined whether or not bus mastership has been released by looking at the CSn
signal or other bus control signals. The states that do not allow bus mastership release are shown
below.
1. 16-byte transfer because of a cache miss
2. During write-back operation for the cache
3. Between the read and write cycles of a TAS instruction
4. Multiple bus cycles generated when the data bus width is smaller than the access size (for
example, between bus cycles when longword access is made to a memory with a data bus
width of 8 bits)
5. 16-byte transfer by the direct memory access controller
6. Setting the BLOCK bit in CMNCR to 1
7. During access to the external flash memory by the NAND flash memory controller
Moreover, by using DPRTY bit in CMNCR, whether the bus mastership request is received or not
can be selected during burst transfer by the direct memory access controller.
The LSI has the bus mastership until a bus request is received from another device. Upon
acknowledging the assertion (low level) of the external bus request signal BREQ, the LSI releases
the bus at the completion of the current bus cycle and asserts the BACK signal. After the LSI
acknowledges the negation (high level) of the BREQ signal that indicates the external device has
released the bus, it negates the BACK signal and resumes the bus usage.
With the SDRAM interface, all bank pre-charge commands (PALLs) are issued when active banks
exist and the bus is released after completion of a PALL command.