Method for using page addressing mechanism
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1. FIG 6 shows the organization of the page table within one page section FIG 7 shows a transfer vector table entry FIG 8 shows a flow diagram representing a series of program instructions used for building the transfer vec tor table FIG 9 shows a flow diagram representing a series of program instructions used in scanning the page table in each page section of program storage memory and 4 374 417 3 FIG 10 shows a flow diagram for a sequence of program instructions allowing for the transfer from one program module to another Referring now to FIG 1 paging apparatus 10 is shown and is used for addressing a paged memory 12 in response to signals provided from a central processing unit CPU 14 CPU 14 may consist of an Intel 8085 microprocessor manufactured and sold by Intel Corp of Santa Clara Calif together with other circuits nor mally associated with an 8085 microprocessor such as an 8257 direct memory access DMA controller CPU 14 provides signals over an address bus 16 a data bus 18 and a control bus 20 The address bus 16 contains six teen lines whereby CPU 14 can directly address 65 536 64K locations of memory As described herein each location will be considered to be the equivalent of eight binary digits bits or one byte of information Data bus 18 consists of eight lines used for carrying eight bits or one byte of information between CPU 14 and memory 12 as well as between CPU 14 and other portion2. 99 4 av ad gS 22 211 07 25 7914 U S Patent Sheet 4 of 9 4 374 417 Feb 15 1983 U S Patent Sng 118 94 0118 94 ev gc 7914 913 Sheet 5 of 9 4 374 417 Feb 15 1983 U S Patent 3 a o 2 3 a 8 U S Patent reb 15 1983 Sheet 6 of 9 4 374 417 PAGE TABLE ENTRY BYTE O BYTE 2 BYTE 1 T 0 7 54 0 7 0 MM n _ crSS T TVT INDEX OFFSET INTO PAGE SECTION FIG 5 PAGE TABLE FIG 6 TRANSFER VECTOR TABLE ENTRY LOC 8AOO 2 INDEX 7 BYTE 1 0 7 2 0 PATCH PAGE OFFSET TO BYTE 2 INDICATOR OF PAGE TABLE FOR THIS ENTRY PAGE SECTION CODE 00 USED FIG 7 01 2000 PAGE SECTION 10 4000 PAGE SECTION 10 6000 PAGE SECTION U S Patent reb 15 1983 Sheet 7 of 9 4 374 417 TVTBLD ADD R H L 150 O ALL FIRST BYTES TRAPP ADD R TO ALL SECOND BYTES 2002 H L 152 CALL PGSCAN CLEAR A 154 156 A CURRENT PAGE 158 CHECK IF 4000 SECTION OF CURRENT PAGE EXISTS 8 DO A CRC CHECK 4002 H L 160 CALL PGSCAN 162 CHECK IF 6000 SECTION OF CURRENT PAGE EXISTS 8 DO A CRC CHECK 6002 H L 164 CALL PGSCAN 166 REG I A FIG 8 YES CONTINUE U S Patent Feb 15 1983 Sheet 8 of 9 4 374 417 FIG 9 gt 0 PAGE SECTION CODE L E OFFSET TO CURRENT TABLE ENTRY
3. RETURN IF CURRENT PAGE TABLE ENTRY FF OTHERWISE STORE TVT INDEX 2 FROM CURRENT ENTRY IN PAGE TABLE IN H L ADD BASE ADDRESS OF 8A00 TO PG REG CODE BITS 0 3 OF B PAGE SECTION CODE BITS 485 OF B B MEMORY AT H L TVT BYTE 1 H L 1 gt H L gt MEMORY H L TVT 2 D E D E U S Patent reb 15 1983 Sheet 9 of 9 4 374 417 CALLING SEQUENCE ELL RST 4 NAME 2 BYTES ADJUST RETURN ADD R PAST 8 SAVE 180 NAME H L 182 CLEAR A 184 SAVE OLD ROM PAGE VALUE FIRST BYTE gt A SET PAGE REG FOR NEW PAGE H L H L SECOND BYTE gt L LEFT SHIFT A THRU C 188 POSITION 190 YES 192 PATCH AREA ADD R gt H L NO BITS 5 6 7 OF A H 194 PAGE SECTION BITS 186 BYTE 1 OF PAGE TBL L 196 BITS 0 4 BYTE 2 OF PAGE TBL gt H H L bs CONTINUE AT NEW ADDRESS 200 FIG 10 4 374 417 1 METHOD FOR USING PAGE ADDRESSING MECHANISM This invention relates to memory addressing and more particularly to apparatus and the method for accessing an amount of memory preater than can be normally accessed using a given size address bus It is well known from the prior art that one can in crease the size of memory addressed by an address bus carrying N bits of information from the normal 24 loca tions to some multiple of 2Nby utilizing the technique of paging This technique generally is
4. Intel 8085 micro processor and a DMA device such as the Intel 8257 both of which are manufactured and sold by Intel Corp of Santa Clara Calif 4 374 417 5 The microprocessor includes an accumulator or register and six other temporary storage registers which are identified as the B C D E H and L registers These registers can be used individually or in groups of two such that the B and C registers form one group the D and E registers form a second group and the H and L registers form a third group In addition there is a pro gram counter a stack pointer and conventional com puter logic in the microprocessor Reference is made to the manual entitled 5 85 User s Manual pub lished by Intel Corporation in 1978 for a more complete description of CPU 14 The microprocessor part of CPU 14 provides a six teen bit address signal over the address bus 16 The address signals are respectively labeled A0 through A15 In addition an eight bit data signal is provided over data bus 18 and the eight data bits are labeled respectively D0 through D7 The control bus 10 from CPU 14 consists of at least the S1 the IO M and ALE signals all of which are well known and described in detail in the aforementioned MCS 85 User s Manual More specifically the 51 signal is a data bus status signal and when it is in a logic 0 state it indicates that either a halt or write function is occurring and when it is in a logic
5. PC in CPU 14 and at block 200 a continuation occurs with the program counter causing the fetching of in structions from the new address therein and execution of the called routine is begun Thus it is seen that by using the simple routine de scribed with respect to FIG 10 the transfer of instruc tion execution between pages can be easily accom plished This technique allows for simplicity in pro gramming because it is not necessary to know the exact location in read only memory of every program module being developed during the development of the soft ware One merely assigns a unique index code to a par ticular program module as it is being programmed Then that program module can be fit into a particular page where room exists and maximum utilization of the memory can be achieved In addition the routine al lows for correcting the program modules by utilizing a patch technique If desired the program modules can also be modified by including all modified program modules in the highest section of ROM This section s page table is scanned last and if an identical TVT index number exists the information previously in the TVT table will be written over by the information in the higher ordered ROM section Several variations of the use of the paging technique can be made to the technique described above A three byte TVT entry could be used whereby the actual ad dress of the new program module is stored in bytes two and three In t
6. a pair of two to four decoders 90 and 92 and OR gate 94 Two to four decoders 90 and 92 may be conventional 74LS139 cir cuits and OR gate 94 may be 741 508 circuit having inverted logic inputs and an inverted logic output The A and B inputs to decode circuit 90 are respectively coupled to the A14 and A15 signals and the enable or G input to circuit 90 is coupled to the MEMR signal which may be generated by means not shown respon sive to both the RD and IO M signals from CPU 14 whenever it is desired to read information from the memory The YO output from decode circuit 90 is cou pled as one input to OR gate 94 and the Y1 output from decode circuit 90 is coupled to the enable or G input of two to four decode circuit 92 The A and B inputs to decode circuit 92 are respectively coupled to the PG BIT2 and PG signals from page registers 32 The YO output from decode circuit 92 is coupled as the second input to OR gate 94 and the Y1 output from decode circuit 92 is coupled to the chip select CS input of bus driver 88 The output of OR gate 94 is coupled to the chip select CS input of bus driver 86 Connected in this manner whenever information is read from one of thw ROM sections 58 60 62 64 66 or 68 bus drive 86 is enabled and whenever information is read from one of the ROM sections 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 or 84 bus driver 88 is enabled The output of each of bus drivers 86 and 88 is connected to the data bus 18 wh
7. case of the random access memory the organization is such that the A15 signal will be logic 0 when this part of the memory is accessed Thus the OUTB signal will be logic 0 for a write to RAM memory operation This in turn makes the RA signal logic 1 and the RB signal logic 0 and hence word 1 or the Write to RAM page register is selected to be read and provide the PG BIT 0 3 to the page bits bus 34 For a read from memory operation the S1 signal is logic 1 and the IO M signal is logic 0 In this case the C1 input to the two parts of the dual four to one decode circuit within page register decode 36 is se lected and the OUTA signal becomes the A15 signal and the OUTB signal becomes a logic 1 If the read is from the random access memory 15 is logic hence word 2 or the read from RAM of page registers 32 will be selected On the other hand if the read is from the ROM part of the memory the 15 signal will 10 5 25 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 be logic 1 and word 3 or the ROM page register will be selected Connected in this manner it is seen that the sequence of instructions such as reading a program instruction from the ROM followed by a reading of data from one page of the RAM and writing of data into a different page of the RAM can automatically occur without the necessity of setting a page register between each in str
8. decode circuit 26 ROM address decode 26 responds to signals on address bus 16 and the page bits on page bit bus 34 to provide one active chip select signals on chip select bus 40 to enable at least a portion of one of either the base ROM 22 or one page of paged ROM 24 to respond to the address signals on address bus 16 The exact operation of this will be explained in more detail with respect to FIG 3 The selection between base RAM 28 and paged RAM 30 is controlled by RAM controller 42 and col umn address strobe CAS decode 44 RAM controller 42 responds to the signals on address bus 16 and control bus 20 and provides a CAS signal two row address strobe RAS signals RASO and RASI and seven RAM address signals RAM A0 A6 over RAM ad dress bus 46 The CAS signal and the page signals on page bit bus 34 are applied to CAS decode 44 which provides the CASO through N signals over CAS bus 48 The CAS RAS0 RASI and the RAM address bus 46 signals are applied to base RAM 28 and the RASI the CAS bus 48 and the RAM address bus 46 signals are applied to the paged RAM 30 to select at least a portion of one of the RAM pages and address one location within that page The details of the addressing scheme of the RAM is described in more detail in FIG 4 Referring now to FIG 2 A more detailed diagram of CPU 14 page register decode 36 page registers 32 and read page register gate 38 is shown CPU 14 consists of a microprocessing unit such as an
9. gate 136 the other input of which is the 15 address signal The output of AND gate 136 is applied to one input of each of AND gates 138 and 140 The other input to AND gate 138 is the A14 signal and the other two inputs to AND gate 140 are respectively the A14 ad dress signal and the PG BITS signal The output of each of AND gates 138 and 140 are applied as the two inputs to NOR gate 142 which provides the signal to the chip select input of RAM controller 42 Coupled in this manner the output of NOR gate 142 will be logic 0 whenever the A15 address signal is logic 1 and the PG BIT3 signal is logic 0 Referring now to FIGS 5 through 10 one technique for utilizing the paging structure shown in FIGS 1 through 4 will now be described Specifically FIGS 5 and 6 show diagrams useful in understanding the page table which is present in each section of paged ROM 24 as well as in section 2 of unpaged ROM 22 FIG 7 shows a diagram useful in understanding the organiza tion of the transfer vector table which is built from the information stored in the page tables of each section of ROM 22 and 24 and which is present in a part of the unpaged portion of RAM 28 FIG 5 shows one entry of a page table Each page table entry consists of three bytes of information or 24 bits in total Eleven of the 24 bits are utilized for con taining a code referred to as the TVT index The TVT index is a unique number for each program module Th
10. implemented by providing a large memory having pages broken into 2 addressable segments and further providing an external register which can be set by a processing unit to provide a given code selecting one of the various pages An example of such a system is shown in U S Pat No 4 037 211 to Ikuta et al granted July 19 1977 In utilizing a paged memory scheme to its fullest advantage some easy and simplified procedure must be established to allow for the orderly and automatic trans fer of addressing from one page to another For in stance in a typical program a basic system operating loop will exist which in response to various external events such as the depression of a key on a keyboard or the request for more information to be printed by a printer will cause departures from the basic loop Typi cally the program governing the result desired for any one departure will be contained as a separate program module which physically exist in a different page than the basic loop In preparing the program programmers typically prepare each group of instructions constitut ing program module separate and apart from one another Not until the programming has been com pleted is each of the program modules stored in mem ory The precise organization of the memory and the modules will depend on the size of each individual mod ule For example for large program modules it may be possible to store only a relatively few in a page of mem
11. means directly addressable by said program counter program instruction storage means for storing said program in structions and means for fetching designated program instructions said program instructions being grouped together in program modules said program instruction storage means being divided into a plurality of com monly addressable pages each page including at least one page section at least one program module having an identification code associated therewith residing in each page section each page being selectable so that one program instruction in that page is directly ad dressed by said program counter whereby that ad dressed instruction is designated a method of fetching program instructions from a different program module comprising the steps of a tabulating in a page table for each page section a table of entries each entry containing one program module identificaton code in that section and a code manifesting the address in that section for that one program module b scanning each page section table to create a trans fer vector table in said random access memory said transfer vector table being addressed in accordance with the identification code of each program mod ule and including a pointer to the page section in which the program module having said identifica tion code resides c looking up the pointer for the identification code of said different program module in said transfer vector table d
12. module and to select the page in which the new program module resides and storing the obtained address in the program counter In utilizing this method a programmer now need only assign an arbitrary identification code to each pro gram module and then provide the appropriate transfer by way of for instance call or jump instructions to the coded identification number Other program modules within the total program can then utilize the tables provided which identify the location of the program module to cause a transfer to that module This greatly simplifies the programmer s task in preparing the pro gram and provides an automatic mechanism to allow the transfer from one program module to another be fore all of the individual program module are known or their specific addresses in the program storage means are determined One preferred embodiment of this invention is herein after described with reference being made to the follow ing drawings in which FIG 1 is a block diagram showing the addressing apparatus for addressing a page memory FIG 2 shows in more detail the central processor unit and the paged bit generating means of the address ing circuit shown in FIG 1 FIG 3 shows in more detail the read only memory and the address decoding circuit therefore shown in FIG 1 FIG 4 shows in more detail the random access mem ory and controller and decoding circuit therefore shown in FIG 1 FIG 5 shows a page table entry
13. paged RAM 30 exits from locations 48K through 64K With regard to the paged RAM 30 at any given time only one of the pages may be selected This selected page will respond to address signals on address bus 16 from 48K through 64K It should be noted that any address signal between 32K and 48K will automatically address base RAM 28 The particular one of the pages selected from paged ROM 24 or paged RAM 30 is determined by the signal at the output of page registers 32 This signal referred to as Page Bits 0 through M is provided from one of a plurality of selected page registers within page registers 32 over page bits bus 34 The number of page bits provided from page register 32 will determine the number of possible pages of each of paged ROM 24 and paged RAM 30 For instance if M is equal to seven whereby eight page bits are provided then the number of pages will be 256 or if M is equal to three whereby four page bits are provided the number of the pages of paged ROM 24 or paged RAM 30 will be sixteen For 20 25 30 35 40 45 60 65 4 the embodiment described herein in FIGS 2 4 M is selected to be three Page registers 32 may consist of a plurality of regis ters each of which is assigned to a different function to be performed by CPU 14 For instance if an operation fetch function is performed by CPU 14 whereby a program instruction is read from paged ROM 24 one of the registers in page registers 32
14. which one of the sections 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 and 84 of pages 4 5 6 or 7 are to be addressed by the address signals AO through A12 on address bus 16 4 374 417 9 Two to four decode circuit 50 is utilized to select whether unpaged ROM 22 or paged ROM 24 is to be addressed Two to four decode circuit 50 and two to four decode circuit 52 may be circuit modules 74LS139 manufactured and sold by Texas Instruments Inc of 5 Dallas Tex and three to eight decode circuits 54 and 56 may be conventional 74LS138 circuit modules also sold and manufactured by Texas Instruments Inc The A and B inputs to two to four decode circuit 50 are respectively coupled to the A14 and A15 signals provided over address bus 16 The G or enable input to two to four decode circuit 50 is connected to the ALE signal provided from CPU 14 at the beginning of each cycle of operation of CPU 14 When both the 14 and 15 signals logic 0 the 0 output from two to four decode circuit 50 becomes logic 0 otherwise it is logic 1 When the A14 signal is logic 1 and the 15 signal is logic 0 the Y1 output from two to four decode circuit 50 becomes logic 0 otherwise it is logic 1 The 2 and outputs from two to four decode circuit 50 are unconnected as shown in FIG 3 The YO output from two to four decode circuit 50 is coupled to the G or enable input of two to four de code circuit 52 Whenever th
15. will be enabled to provide the page bits on bus 34 Separate registers within page registers 32 are also provided for the opera tions of reading from the paged RAM 30 writing into the paged RAM 30 and DMA operations in which the DMA is utilized to read or write from paged RAM 30 Of course page registers 32 may include additional registers for other functions desired to be performed by CPU 14 Page registers 32 respond to signals provided thereto from data bus 18 and to a write page register signal WT PG REG provided by CPU 14 In addition register selection signals are provided to select one of the plural ity of registers within page registers 32 from page regis ter decode circuit 36 The selection signals from page register decode 36 will select one of the registers within page registers 32 to provide data on to page bits bus 34 If the WT PG REG signal from CPU 14 is active the data appearing on data bus 18 will be written into the selected register in page registers 32 CPU 14 can also read the signals provided by page registers 32 by the provision of the read page register signal RD PG REG to enable the read page register gate 38 Read page register gate 38 responds to the page bit signals on page bit bus 34 and provides these signals back to data bus 18 when the gates therein are enabled by the RD PG REG signal from CPU 14 The selection of either the base ROM 22 or one page of the paged ROM 24 is controlled by the ROM address
16. 1 state it indicates that a read or fetch function is occurring Similarly the IO M signal indicates whether the read write function is directed to memory or to an Input Output 1 0 device When IO M signal is logic 1 the information on the data bus is desig nated for an I O device and when the IO M signal is logic 0 the information on the data bus is designated for the memory It should be noted that the signal is in the high impedance state during the hold or halt instructions The ALE signal is an address latch enable signal which occurs during the first clock cycle of a machine state and enables the address to be latched As used for the present invention the ALE signal is for the purpose of specifying when the sixteen bits on address bus 16 are all valid In addition the microprocessor position of CPU 14 provides conventional read RD and write WR control signals Input output device addressing circuitry can be included within CPU 14 to respond to the RD and WR signals to provide the RD PG REG and WT PG REG signals The output from the DMA portion of CPU 14 is the AEN signal which signifies that a DMA transfer is occurring Normally this signal is logic 0 but becomes a logic 1 during a DMA operation and is used to disable the system data and control buses during the DMA operation Page register decode 36 is a conventional dual four to one decoder such as the SN74LS153 circuit module manufacture
17. 3 Each memory module desig nated 96 through 130 even numbers only of the RAM 28 and 30 is a 32K by 1 bit module and consists of two 16K by 1 bit circuits Each circuit is responsive to the RAM 0 through address signals the WE signal and to a CASX and RASX signal In each block paged or unpaged of RAM memory there is one circuit from each of nine individual modules such as 96 112 even numbers only for providing the D0 through D7 signals plus an additional parity bit signal labeled DP The parity bit DP is used by circuitry not shown in a con ventional manner to determine the parity of the data provided to or from RAM memory 28 or 30 In FIG 4 64K bytes of random access memory are shown and divided into a 16K byte unpaged base or RAM 28 and seven pages of 16K bytes each of paged RAM 30 It should be noted that pages 3 5 inclusive are represented by the dashed lines in FIG 4 Each of the memory modules 96 130 even numbers is divided in half so that one 16K circuit therein is part of either the base of one page and the other 16K circuit therein is part of a different page As previously mentioned each 16K block of memory responds to address lines RAMAO 6 a RASX signal the WE signal and a CASX signal For instance the unpaged RAM 28 block is shown in the upper half of modules 96 112 even num bers and responds to the RAS0 WE and the CAS sig nals as well as the RAM address bus 46 signals RAMAO 6 The lower half of the
18. 5 signal the 0 signal and the 0 signal The lower four inputs 2 0 through 2C3 are respectively coupled to the 15 sig nal a logic 1 signal the A1 signal and the A1 signal The strobe signals 1G and 2G for both portions are connected to the AEN signal from the DMA portion of CPU 14 and the A and B select signals are respectively coupled to the S1 and IO M signal from the micro processor portion of CPU 14 The Y output of the upper four to one decode circuit is labeled the OUT A signal and the Y output from the lower portion of the four to one decode circuits is labeled the OUT B signal Page registers 32 consists of a 4X 4 register file such as the SN74L S670 module manufactured and sold by Texas Instruments Inc of Dallas Tex and described in the aforementioned book The TTL Data Book for Design Engineers Briefly page registers 32 consists of a sixteen bit register file organized as four words of four bits each and further consists of on chip decoding pro viding for the addressing the four word locations in either a write in or read out mode This permits simulta neous writing into one location and reading from an other location if desired The four low order data bus 18 bits DO through D3 are applied to the data input of page registers 32 In addition six control signals are applied to inputs respectively labeled WB WA RB Ra GW and GR The signals applied to the WA and WB inputs control which one of the fo
19. HL registers of the 8085 micro processor within CPU 14 As previously mentioned this address may be hexadecimal 8A00 Next all of the first bytes in the TVT table are set equal to zero and the address of the TRAPP program module is stored in the second byte of each TVT entry This is done for the purpose of providing a jump to an error routine in the event that a particular TVT index does not exist and by mistake a jump to the location for that non existent index is made The TRAPP program module is located in the first section 58 of the unpaged ROM 22 and thus 0 45 60 65 14 the second byte is an offset into section 58 of unpaged ROM 22 Next according to block 152 the hexadecimal num ber 2002 is transferred to the HL registers and the sub program PGSCAN is called The PGSCAN program is shown in FIG 9 and will be discussed in detail hereaf ter Briefly the PGSCAN program scans the page table for the module addressed by the HL registers and places these scanned entries from one page table into the TVT table in the unpaged RAM 28 Thereafter according to block 154 the accumulator or A register is cleared Continuing with block 156 the data stored in the A register is applied over data bus 18 to be stored in the ROM page register This occurs in conjunction with the WT PG REG signal from CPU 14 This data controls the page to be operated upon by the remainder of the TVTBLD program at this time Next according to bl
20. United States Patent 1 5 Bradley et al 11 4 374 417 45 Feb 15 1983 54 METHOD FOR USING PAGE ADDRESSING MECHANISM David J Bradley Boca Raton Dennis D Gibbs Lighthouse Point Donald J Kostuch Boca Raton James S Martin Coral Springs all of Fla International Business Machines Corp Armonk N Y 21 Appl No 231 639 75 Inventors 73 Assignee 2 Filed Feb 5 1981 51 Int Cl G06F 9 30 52 US CL 364 200 58 Field of Search 364 200 MS File 900 MS File 56 References Cited U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 3 970 999 7 1976 Elward 3 976 978 8 1976 Patterson et al 4 145 738 3 1979 Inoue et al 364 200 Primary Examiner Mark E Nusbaum Assistant Examiner Thomas M Heckler Attorney Agent or Firm Harry W Barron John Black J Jancin Jr 3 4 ROM RO PG REG DECODE 571 ABSTRACT In a computer system paging operates and a method of use thereof are provided for extending the addressing capability of a processor by using a page register The page register includes means for storing different codes for different operations to be performed on the mem ory The memory is divided into four groups of memory within 27 addresses such that there is paged and un paged ROM and paged and unpaged RAM The un paged ROM and RAM include only a single block which is directly addressed b
21. c 0 signal to the GW output or the signals applied to the WA and WB inputs will be ignored Since the GR input is connected to ground or logic the signals applied to the RA and RB inputs will cause one of the four 4 bit words contained in the 4X 4 file of page 4 374 417 7 registers 32 to always be read Thus a 4 bit signal will always be applied as the PG BIT 0 3 signals on bus 34 Again if both RA and RB are logic 0 then word 0 or the DMA page register is read If RA is logic 1 and RB is logic 0 then word 1 or the Write RAM page register is read If RA is logic 0 and RB is logic 1 then word 2 or the Read RAM page register is read And finally if both RA and RB inputs have logic 1 signals supplied thereto then the word 3 or the ROM page register is read Four page bits from the particular one of the four words of the 4x 4 file containing page registers 32 applied as the PG BIT 0 3 signals on page bits bus 34 Each line of bus 34 is applied as one input to one of four gates within read page register gate 38 The other input of each gate has applied thereto the RD PG REG signal from CPU 14 to enable the gates to provide the PG BIT 0 3 signals to the data bus 18 Thus read page register gate 38 allows CPU 14 to read the page signal informa tion read from page registers 34 The RA and WA inputs to page registers 32 are both connected to the OUTA signal from page register d
22. cessing the page table entry further comprises the step of storing in a register a code manifesting the page section and said page table entry offset whereby said register contains said obtained address to be stored in said program counter 7 The method according to claim 1 wherein each page table contains one entry for each program module identification code in the page section in which that page table is tabulated and wherein said step of scanning includes the step of addressing said transfer vector table at a location derived from the program module identification code for each page table entry 8 The method according to claim 7 wherein said step of scanning further includes the step of adding the code for the first location of said transfer vector to a number related to said program module identification code 9 The method according to claim 7 wherein said system further includes page register means for select ing one page of said program instructions storage means in accordance with a programmable code stored thereby and wherein said step of processing includes storing said programmable code in said page register means in accordance with said pointer 10 The method according to claim 9 wherein said step of scanning further includes the step of adding the code for the first location of said transfer vector table to a number related to said program module identification code 11 The method according to claim 10 wherein said t
23. d and sold by Texas Instruments Inc of Dallas Tex and which is described in the book enti tled The TTL Data Book for Design Engineers published by Texas Instruments Inc in 1978 Specifi cally each of the two four to one decode circuits have four signals applied to the C0 through C3 inputs and provide one of those four signals at the Y output thereof so long as the strobe signal of G input has a logic 0 signal applied thereto The particular one of the input signals applied to the output depends upon the state of the signals applied to the select or A and B inputs Specifically if the two signals applied to the A and B inputs are both logic 0 the input signal is applied as the Y output signal If the signals applied to the A and B inputs are respectively logic 1 and logic 0 then the input signal becomes the Y output 20 25 30 40 45 60 65 6 signal If the signals applied to the A and B inputs are respectively logic 0 and logic 1 then the C2 input signal becomes the Y output signal and if both the A and B signals are logic 1 then the input signal be comes the Y output signal As coupled in page register decode circuit 36 two four to one decode circuits are utilized both of which are provided in the single SN74LS153 module The 1C0 through 1C3 inputs of the upper four to one decode circuit are respectively coupled to logic 1 signal the A1
24. e code 36 The RB and WB inputs to page registers 32 are both connected to the OUTB output from page register to code 36 Connected in this manner the signals at the outputs of page register decode 36 control the particu lar word which is read from the page registers 32 and applied to page bit bus 34 as the PG BIT 0 3 signals The OUTA and OUTB signals from page register de code 36 will each be one of the signals applied to the C1 C2 or C3 inputs of the two parts of page register decode 36 depending on the state of the S1 and IO M bar signals applied to the A and B inputs of the AEN signal applied to the and 2G inputs In the case of a DMA operation the AEN signal becomes logic 1 thereby causing the OUTA and OUTB signals to both become logic 0 These signals when applied to the RA and RB inputs of page registers 32 cause the DMA page register or word 0 to be read and the bits stored therein become the PG BIT 0 3 signals applied to page bit bus 34 In the event it is desired to write information into the random access memory the S1 signal becomes logic 0 and the IO M signal is logic 0 In this event the CO inputs to both portions of the four to one de code circuits making up page register decode 36 be come the OUTA and OUTB signals In other words the OUTA signal becomes logic 1 and the OUTB signal becomes the value of signal A15 which is the complement of the signal on address line 15 In the
25. e remaining thirteen bits of information in the page table entry contain a number which is an offset into that paged section defining the exact location of the pro gram module identified by the TVT index The particu lar organization is such that the high eight bits of the index are contained in byte zero of the page table entry and the low three bits are contained as bits 5 6 and 7 of byte two The high five bits of the offset are contained in bits zero through 4 of byte two and the low eight bits are contained in byte one of the page table entry FIG 6 shows the organization of a paged table The first two bytes in any paged section are located in ad dresses X000 and X001 where X 2 4 6 and corre sponds to the section code Those bytes contain the high value of the first address and the high value of last address plus one of that page section These values are used in the initialization procedures for performing certain checks on the memory to insure that it operates properly such they form no part of the present invention Beginning with hexadecimal location X002 the first three byte page table entry occurs The second page table entry then begins at location X005 and so forth so that there is one entry for each program mod ule contained in that particular ROM section In the location immediately following the last or Nth page table entry the data code hexadecimal FF is entered 4 374 417 13 to mark th
26. e HL register is incremented by 1 and the second TVT byte as then addressed by the HL registers is read and stored in the L register Then according to block 188 the second TVT byte is left shifted through carry one posi tion and a determination is made at block 190 whether the carry indicator is set If it is a patch is indicated and as indicated in block 192 the patch area address is trans ferred to the Hl registers and processing continues by 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 65 16 transferring the program fetch operation to the patch area of the RAM Assuming that the carry indicator is not set at block 190 then according to block 194 bits 5 6 and 7 of the A register which contain the page section bits left shifted one position are transferred to the H register At this point in time the H register contains a code of hexadecimal 20 40 or 60 and the L register contains the offset to byte 2 of the proper page table entry Continuing at block 196 the offset into the paged section contained by byte 1 and bits 0 through 4 of byte 2 of the address page table entry are transferred to the HL registers It should be noted that the page section bits contained in the H register are maintained during this transfer operation Thus the HL registers at this point contains an address of the called program routine Then according to block 198 the address contained in the HL registers is transferred to the program counter
27. e YO signal from two to four decode circuit 50 is logic 0 two to four decode circuit 52 is enabled The A and B inputs of two to four decode circuit 52 are respectively coupled to the A13 address signal and to a logic 1 signal When two to four decode circuit 52 is enabled and if the A13 signal applied to the A input is a logic 0 then the Y2 output from two to four decode circuit 52 becomes logic 0 If the A13 signal is a logic 1 the Y3 output from two to four decode circuit 52 becomes a logic 0 The Y2 signal from circuit 52 is provided to the chip select input of section 58 of unpaged ROM 22 and the Y3 output from circuit 52 is applied to the chip select input of section 60 of unpaged ROM 22 Whenever a logic 0 signal is applied to the chip select input of one of the ROM sections 58 60 that particular section is enabled to respond to the address signals AO through A12 on address bus 16 In response to these addresss signals and the chip select enabling signal eight bits of data con tained in the address location are provided at the output of the enabled section The Y1 output of two to four decode circuit 50 is coupled to the G2A inputs of both three to eight de code circuits 54 and 56 In addition the A B and C inputs to each of circuits 54 and 56 are respectively coupled to the A13 address signal and the PG and PG BIT1 page bit signals from page registers 32 The GT input to circui
28. e end of the page table In the location imme diately following the end of table marker the code for the first program instruction of the first program mod ule exists Referring now to FIG 7 one entry in the transfer vector table is shown The transfer vector table is lo cated in a block of unpaged random access memory 30 beginning for instance at location 8A00 and includes a two byte entry for each page table entry in all of the sections of paged and the one section of unpaged mem ory The transfer vector table entries are each placed in a memory location corresponding to the TVT index code such that twice the TVT index is added to hexa decimal location 8A00 For each entry bit 0 through 3 of byte 1 contain the page number and bits 4 and 5 contain the section code X for that page For bits 4 and 5 the code 00 is not used the code 01 indicates 2000 page section or the second part of the unpaged or base ROM 22 the code of 10 indicates 4000 address in the page section or in other words the low ad dressed half of each page the code 11 indicates a 6000 address in the page section or the high addressed half of each page Bit 6 of byte 1 is always set equal to 0 and bit 7 is utilized as a patch indicator whereby if it is a logic 1 a patch is indicated As used herein a patch occurs if a given program module in the ROM is re placed by a substitute program stored in the RAM This normally occ
29. e purpose of scanning one entire page table in a sec tion of ROM 22 or 24 This routine is called with the HL registers containing the address of the first entry of the page table that entry being location 2002 for the second section 60 of the unpaged memory or location 4002 for the first sections 62 66 70 74 78 or 82 of the various paged ROM or location 6002 for the second sections 64 68 72 76 80 and 84 of the various paged ROM 24 First according to block 168 the address code in the HL registers is stored in the DE registers Thus the D register contains the page secton code and the E regis ter contains an offset to the current page table entry within that section Then according to block 170 a determination is made whether the paged table entry is equal to hexadecimal FF which is the end of table marker as shown in FIG 6 If this is the case a return to the calling program occurs Otherwise the index is doubled and stored in the HL registers The TVT index is obtained from byte 0 and the three most significant bits of byte 2 of the current entry in the paged table addressed by the DE registers Then ac 4 374 417 15 cording to block 172 the base address of the T V T table which is hexadecimal 8A00 is added to the doubled TVT index stored in the HL registers At this point the HL registers contain the correct address in the TVT table for the page table entry being scanned Thereafter according to bl
30. his instance direct addressing of the new program module can occur without using the offset in the page table entry Another variation involves placing the index of program modules which are frequently called in a spe cial section of the TVT table Such a special section may be for example between locations 8COO and 8DFF and would contain TVT index between decimal 256 and 511 For these program modules a different restart instruction would be used and the NAME code could be a single byte The single NAME byte is then placed in the L register and hexadecimal 46 is placed in the H register Then the value in the HL registers are doubled due to the two byte length of each TVT table entry and the processing continues as described from block 184 through 200 This procedure saves one byte of storage each time one of these frequently used mod ules is called It should be noted that conventional call and jump instructions may be used when transferring to program modules located in the unpaged ROM 22 Thus the most frequently called program modules should be 4 374 417 17 placed in unpaged ROM 22 to the extent space is avail able This conserves processing time since there is no necessity to refer to the TVT table We claim 1 In a data processing system which executes a series of fetched program instructions to obtain a desired re sult and which includes a program counter for provid ing an address code random access memory
31. ich carries the DO through D7 data signals Referring now to FIG 4 RAM controller 42 CAS decode 44 unpaged RAM 28 and the paged RAM 30 are shown in more detail RAM controller 42 may be a conventional RAM memory controller such as the Intel 8202 random access memory controller manufac tured and sold by Intel Corp of Santa Clara Calif RAM controller 42 is enabled by a logic 0 signal being applied to the CS or chip select input thereof from logic circuit 86 This signal as will be explained in more detail hereafter is provided when the A15 address sig nal is logic 1 and the PG BITS signal is logic 0 or in other words when the random access memory 28 and 30 is selected As shown in FIG 4 there is one unpaged block of 16K RAM and seven paged blocks of 16K RAM Thus only three PG 50 2 of the four paged register 32 signals PG BITO 3 are required Hence under normal operations the PG BITS signal is always kept at logic 0 RAM controller 42 includes an address bus input to which the AO through 13 address signals are applied In addition there is a clock input to which the system clock of 16 432 megahertz is applied a write WT input to which the MEMW signal is applied a read RD input to which the MEMR signal is applied a BO input to which the A14 address signal is applied and the chip select CS input to which the output of logic 86 is applied The MEMW signal is provided by logic not shown re
32. machine cycle the instruction at the predetermined RST location will be executed The RST1 program shown in FIG 10 utilizes this fea ture of the 8085 microprocessor such that whenever it is desired to cause a transfer from one program module to another such as by the conventional call instruction or jump instruction the calling sequence is the RST1 instruction followed by a two byte NAME code which identifies the particular module to be called and con tains the address of that program modulus entry in the TVT index table First according to block 180 the saved return address which normally is the address immediately following the RST1 instruction is adjusted to the address following the NAME code Then ac cording to block 182 bytes 1 and 2 of the NAME code are stored in the HL registers and thus the HL registers address the desired TVT table entry of the called pro gram Thereafter according to block 184 the accumu lator or register is cleared and the then existing information in the ROM page register in page registers 32 is read and saved on the stack Then according to block 186 the first TVT table byte which is then addressed by the HL registers is read from the random access memory and stored in the A register The low four bits of information in the A register is then transmitted to page registers 32 to set the ROM page register to the page specified in byte 1 of the index for the called program Thereafter th
33. module 96 112 even numbers only contain page 1 of paged RAM 30 and respond to the RASI WE and CASI signals together with the RAM address signals RAMAO 6 on bus 46 For page 6 shown as the upper half of modules 114 130 even numbers only the R SI WE and CAS6 signals are applied to each of the nine 16K by 1 bit circuits of modules 114 130 even numbers In the same manner the RASI WE and CAST signals are applied to page 7 In each case the RAM address signals RAMAO 6 RAM address bus 46 are also applied to each circuit In general for the unpaged base RAM 28 the 50 and CAS signals are applied and for the various pages of the paged portion and RAS1 signal is applied to each page and of the CASI through CAS signals from 0 5 20 25 35 40 45 50 60 65 12 CAS decode 44 is applied to pages 1 7 respectively Thus it is seen that the RAS0 and RASI signals used to determine whether base RAM 28 or paged RAM 30 is to be accessed and the CAS and 1 through CAS7 signals are used to determine which page is to be accessed Circuit 86 as previously mentioned provides the chip select signal to RAM controller 42 Circuit 86 consists of NAND gate 134 AND gates 136 138 and 140 and NOR gates 142 The two inputs to NAND gate 134 are the AEN signal from the DMA portion of CPU 14 and the IO M signal from CPU 14 The output of NAND gate 134 is applied as one input to AND
34. ock 158 a determination is made whether the 4000 section of the page number just sent to the page register 32 exists and if so a cycle redundancy check CRC is made to determine if that section is accurate If the CRC check fails an error is posted Then according to block 160 the hexadecimal ad dress 4002 is transferred to the HL registers and PGSCAN routine is called to scan the page table in the 4000 section of the page contained in the ROM page register as modified at block 156 Then according to blocks 162 and 164 the same procedure as was described with respect to blocks 158 and 160 is undertaken for the 6000 section for the page number outputted at block 156 Then at block 166 the value stored in the ROM page register in page registers 32 is read and incremented by one and stored in the accumulator The four most signif icant bits are then set equal to zero and according to block 167 a determination is made whether the value stored in the accumulator is equal to zero If not a return to block 156 occurs and similar processing results for the new page number determined at block 166 If at block 167 it had been determined that A was equal to zero indicating that all of the pages had been processed then a continuation with a remainder of the initialization program occurs Referring now to FIG 9 the PGSCAN program module is described As recalled from blocks 152 160 and 164 in FIG 8 the PGSCAN program is called for th
35. ock 174 the ROM page register in page registers 32 is read and the data is stored in bit positions 0 3 of the B register In addition the paged section code which is obtained from the D regis ter is stored in bit positions 4 and 5 in the B register Bit positions 6 and 7 are set to 0 Thus byte 1 of the TVT table entry is contained in the B register Then accord ing to block 176 the contents of the B register is stored in the TVT table at the address contained in the HL registers The HL registers value is then incremented by one and the contents of the E register which is the offset to the current page table entry is stored in the table at the address then contained in the HL registers Thereafter the contents of the DE register is incremented by one and returned to block 170 occurs and the next page table entry is scanned and transferred to the table This continues until the end of the table marker is identified at block 170 Referring now to FIG 10 the program routine RST1 is shown in a flow diagram format and is used whenever a transfer from one program module to another pro gram module is to occur The 8085 source code for the RST1 program is shown in Appendix III In the 8085 microprocessor the RST instruction is used as a restart instruction and automatically causes a predetermined address located in unpaged ROM to be placed in the program counter with the saving of certain information in the stack On the next
36. ory On the other hand for short modules a large num ber can be stored on each page In practice both large and some small modules are assigned to each page so that the maximum possible locations per page are uti lized During the initial programming the programmer is unable to determine precisely which page a program module will be assigned and hence the programmer cannot program in the necessary page enabling codes needed to transfer program control from one module to another Accordingly some scheme must be developed to allow this to be easily and automatically accom plished irrespective of where the program modules are ultimately placed During the programming process all that can be required of the programmer is to cause a transfer from one identified by name or identification number program module to another identified program module without considering the location of either One way to do this is to utilize a table storing the program names by identification number together with an associ ated page number and address within the page in a master table for the identified program In accordance with one aspect of this invention there is provided an improvement in a data processing system which executes a series of fetched program instructions to obtain a desired result and which includes a program counter for providing an address code random access memory directly addressable by the program counter 2 program instructions s
37. processing the looked up pointer to obtain the address of said different program module and to select the page in which said different program module resides and e storing the obtained address in the program counter 2 The method according to claim 1 wherein said page tables in each page section are all located at com mon addressable locations therein 3 The method according to claim 1 wherein said steps c d and e are performed each time a program instruction from a different program module is to be fetched 4 The method according to claim 3 wherein said step b is performed each time power is applied to said system 5 The method according to claim 1 wherein said transfer vector table pointer includes a first code indicating the page section and a second code indicating an offset into that page section at which the page table entry for said different pro gram module is tabulated and 5 20 25 35 45 55 60 wherein said step of processing the pointer includes the steps of looking up the page table entry at the location mani fested by said pointer and processing the page table entry to obtain said address of said different program module 65 18 6 The method according to claim 5 wherein said page table code manifesting said address is an offset into said page section of the location at which the first instruction of said different program module exists and wherein said step of pro
38. ransfer vector table pointer includes a first code indi cating the page section and a second code indicating an offset into that page section at which the page table entry for said different program module is tabulated and wherein said step of processing the pointer includes the steps of looking up the page table entry at the location mani fested by said pointer and processing the page table entry to obtain said address of said different program module 12 The method according to claim 11 wherein said page table code manifesting said address is an offset into said page section of the location at which the first instruction of said different program module exists wherein said step of processing the page table entry further comprises the step of storing in a register a code manifesting the page section and said page table entry offset whereby said register contains said obtained address to be stored in said program counter 13 The method according to claim 12 wherein said steps c d and e are performed each time a program instruction from a different program module is to be fetched 14 The method according to claim 13 wherein said step b is performed each time power is applied to said system
39. s a pair of two to four decode circuits 50 and 52 and a pair of three to eight decode logic circuits 54 and 56 As shown in FIG 3 only pages 0 1 4 5 6 and 7 are shown for paged ROM 24 it being understood that any number of pages up to sixteen can be used As previ ously explained with respect to FIG 1 the unpaged ROM 22 includes 16K bytes in address space 0 16 and each page of the paged ROM 24 of the ROM memory includes 16K bytes in address space 16K 32K How ever in actually constructing the system two circuit modules of 8K bytes may be used for the unpaged ROM 22 and for each page of the paged ROM 24 Thus the unpaged ROM 22 includes first section 58 and second section 60 each of which are 8K bytes in size Similarly page 0 of the paged ROM 24 includes section 62 and section 64 The same is true for each of the other pages wherein page 1 includes sections 66 and 68 page 4 includes sections 70 and 72 page 5 includes sections 74 and 76 page 6 includes sections 78 and 80 and page 7 includes sections 82 and 84 Two to four decode circuit 52 is utilized to select which of the two sections 58 or 60 of the unpaged ROM 22 is to be addressed by the AO through A12 address signals Three to eight decode circuit 54 is utilized to select which one of the four sections 62 64 66 and 68 of pages 0 and 1 are to be addressed by the address signals AO through A12 on address bus 16 Three to eight de code circuit 56 is utilized to determine
40. s of addressing apparatus 10 requiring data to be provided hereto or which provides data to be sent to CPU 14 Control bus 20 consists of a plurality of lines which signify different operations which are to be performed by CPU 14 For instance if memory 12 is to be read one set of signals will appear on control bus 20 whereas if the information on data bus 18 is to be written into memory 12 a different set of signals will appear on control bus 20 The detailed description of the various signals appearing on control bus 20 will be described hereafter when a more specific description of CPU 14 is given in FIG 2 Memory 12 consists of read only memory ROM and random access memory RAM each addressable within the 64K addressing space of address bus 16 The first 32K address space is used for read only memory in which the various program modules are stored The read only memory is further broken down into un paged or base ROM 22 contained within the first 16K address locations and paged ROM 24 contained within the address locations between 16K and 32K The paged ROM 24 is divided into zero through N pages of 16K bytes each At any given time only one of the zero through N pages will be enabled by chip select signals applied thereto from ROM address decode circuit 26 The random access memory is organized similar to the read only memory in that unpaged base RAM 28 exists from the address locations from 32K to 48K and zero through N pages of
41. sponsive to the WR and IO M signals from CPU 14 whenever these signals indicate that a memory write operation is to occur 4 374 417 11 The outputs of RAM controller 42 include the RAM address bus 46 having the RAM AO through RAM A6 address signals provided thereon In addition the out puts include a RASO RAS1 WE Write Enable and CAS signals The RASO and RASI signals are provided as row address strobes and the particular one provided is determined by the value of the A14 signal applied to the BO input If A14 is logic 0 then the RASO signal is active If A14 is logic 1 the RASI signal is active The CAS signal is a column address strobe signal and is applied to CAS decode circuit 44 which may be a three to eight decoder such as the 74LS138 circuit manufac tured and sold by Texas Instruments Inc The A B and C inputs of three to eight decoder 44 are respectively coupled to the PG 0 PG and PG BIT2 signals provided from page register 32 The input of three to eight decode circuit 44 is a logic 1 signal and the G2B signal is a logic 0 The CAS signal from RAM controller 42 is applied to the G2 input The seven least significant outputs Y0 Y6 of three to eight decode circuit 44 are utilized and respec tively provide the CAS1 through CAS signals on CAS bus 48 The organization of the RAM 28 and 30 is somewhat different in details than the organization of the ROM 22 and 24 shown in FIG
42. t 54 is coupled to the PG BIT2 signal and the G2B input to circuit 54 is connected to the PG BITS signal The G1 input to circuit 56 is coupled to the PG signal and the G2B input to circuit 56 is cou pled to the PG BIT2 signal The Y0 through outputs from circuit 54 are spectively coupled to the chip select CS inputs of the page 0 and page 1 sections 62 64 66 and 68 The Y4 through 7 outputs of circuit 54 are unconnected The Y0 through Y7 outputs of circuit 56 are respectively coupled to the chip select CS inputs of page 4 page 5 page 6 and page 7 sections 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 and 84 Each of the paged ROM sections respond to address bits A0 through A12 applied thereto over address bus 16 and provides an 8 bit output signal containing the addressed data when that particular module is selected by an appropriate logic 0 signal from circuit 54 or 56 35 45 55 65 10 The data outputs from each of ROM sections 58 60 62 64 66 and 68 are coupled together and applied to the data input of bus driver circuit 86 In the same manner the data outputs from each of the modules 72 74 76 78 80 82 and 84 are coupled together and applied to the data input of bus driver 88 Bus driver circuits 86 and 88 may be conventional 74L S244 driver circuits manufac tured and sold by Texas Instruments Inc of Dallas Tex At any given time only one of these circuits 86 or 88 may be enabled by the operation of
43. torage means for storing the pro gram instructions and means for fetching the designated program instructions The program instructions are grouped together in program modules and the program instruction storage means is divided into a plurality of pages Each page includes at least one page section and 0 20 25 30 35 40 45 55 65 at least one program module having an identification code associated herewith resides in each page section Each page is selectable so that one program instruction in that page is directly addressed by the program counter whereby the addressed instruction is desig nated The improvement is a method of fetching pro gram instructions from a different program module comprising the steps of tabulating in a page table for each paged section each program module identification code in that section and the address in that section for that module and scanning each page section table to create a transfer vector table in the random access mem ory The transfer vector table is addressed in accor dance with the identification code of each program module and includes a pointer to the page section in which the program module having the identification code resides The method further comprises the steps of looking up the pointer for the identification code of the different program module in the transfer vector table processing the looked up pointer to obtain the address of the different program
44. uction In other words the ROM pa ge register the Read RAM page register and the Write RAM page register are all initially set and then the sequence of instructions just described is expected and automati cally causes the appropriate page bits to be provided for the desired function In this same manner if a DMA operation is included a separate set of page bits can be provided in the DMA page register thereby eliminating the requirement of resetting that page register each time a DMA operation occurs Whenever it is desired to write new information into the page registers 32 or for CPU 14 to read the informa tion stored by page registers 32 page registers 32 are treated as an input output or device In this case the IO M signal becomes logic 1 and the S1 signal will be logic 0 or logic 1 depending upon whether information is being written into or read from page registers 32 In either case the OUTA signal becomes the A0 address signal and the OUTB signal becomes the A1 address signal By appropriately addressing page registers 32 with the A0 and A1 address signals either of the four words can be read or written over in con junction with the provision of the WT PG REG signal or the RD PG REG signal from CPU 14 Referring now to FIG 3 a more detailed diagram of the ROM address to decode circuit 26 is shown in conjunction with the base ROM 22 and the paged ROM 24 of the memory 12 ROM address decode 26 include
45. ur words will have new data written therein as long as an active logic 0 signal is applied to the GW input The signals ap plied to the RA and RB inputs control which one of the four words will be read whenever an active logic 0 signal is applied to the GR input As seen in FIG 2 the GR input is placed at a logic 0 state by grounding and thus at any given time one word consisting of four bits will always be read and applied as the PG BIT 0 through 4 signals on page bit bus 34 In operation if logic signals are applied to both the WA and WB inputs and the GW input is at logic 0 then word 0 contained within the 4x 4 file of page registers 32 will have the data applied over lines DO through D3 of data bus 18 written therein As shown schematically in FIG 2 word zero is in the left most word and as will be explained hereafter is designated as the DMA page register Similarly if WA is logic 1 and WA is logic 0 then word 1 will have data written therein if WA is logic 0 and WB is logic 1 word 2 will have data written therein and if both WA and WB are logic 1 word 3 will have the data written therein Again as will be explained in more detail hereafter word 1 is designated as the Write RAM page register Word 2 is designated as the Read RAM page register and Word 3 is designated as the ROM page register In writing it should be noted that it is always necessary to apply a logi
46. urs if a desired change to the ROM pro gram module is made after the program has been placed in the ROM and cannot be easily changed This may occur for instance if an error exists in the ROM pro gram module Byte 2 of the transfer vector table entry contains an offset to the location of the second byte of the page table entry for the page and section identified in byte 1 of the transfer vector table entry Thus there becomes a practical limit of 84 entries which can be contained in the page table for each section FIGS 8 and 9 shows a flow diagram of a computer program which may be used to build the transfer vector table from the information contained in the page tables The two programs shown by FIGS 8 and 9 are respec tively labeled TVTBLD and PGSCAN The actual source coding for an 8085 microprocessor used as the heart of CPU 14 corresponding to the flow diagrams of FIGS 8 and 9 is shown respectively in Appendices I and II attached hereto Both of those programs are performed as part of the initialization procedures during a power up sequence Thus each time power is applied to the system the transfer vector table is built according to TVTBLD program The TVTBLD and PGSCAN programs are physically placed in section 1 of the unpaged ROM 58 Referring now specifically to FIG 8 the first thing which occurs according to block 150 is that the ad dress of the first location of the transfer vector table TVT is stored in the
47. y the n bit address bus The paged ROM and RAM includes a plurality of blocks or pages one of which is selected to be addressed by the page register The page register responds to the address bus and to signals from the processor defining the mem ory operation to be performed by providing page sig nals selecting one page of paged memory The method of using the paging apparatus includes creating a table in the unpaged RAM of all routines in the paged mem ory blocks and using the table to transfer from one routine to another Within the table is a code identifying the page in which the new routine exists and an offset into that page used to determine the address in that page of the new routine 14 Claims 10 Drawing Figures SELECT Sheet of 9 4 374 417 Feb 15 1983 U S Patent I 39Vd O39Vd 82 71 3sva 0 193135 919 W 0 51 8 39Vd 9c SS3HQQV 8l 939 9d 09 Sheet 2 of 9 4 374 417 Feb 15 1983 U S Patent 8l lig 94 2118 94 ML 0 94 9334 94 QY 508 18 39Vd 279144 T WI i E PT a uld XoVIS 3 xr MIND 9044 934 1 8 STI ov 0v HT aba C awsar n M 4 374 417 s 5 18 9d 3W eo s Si LIB 9d bY 0 en 5 e ei sna 52 a v7 1 9 E
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