AMD Elan SC520 - Figure 12-2 Voltage Isolation Examples

ROM/Flash Controller
12-4 Élan™SC520 Microcontroller User’s Manual
If the system has ROM devices on both the SDRAM data bus and the GP bus and data
bus buffers are used (on either bus), ROMBUFOE
should be qualified with the appropriate
ROM chip selects and ROMRD
, as needed, to prevent bus conflicts. For example, when
SDRAM buffering is enabled, the SDRAM controller could be attempting to complete posted
writes to the SDRAM. During this time, if the Am5
x
86 CPU performs a read from a ROM
device that is on the GP bus (data bus), the buffer on the SDRAM bus (which isolates the
ROM devices from the SDRAM) activates, unless its buffer control pins were also qualified
with the ROMCSx
pin.
Figure 12-2 Voltage Isolation Examples
3.3-V SDRAM
5-V ROM
5-V Peripheral
Buffer
GP Bus
SDRAM
Bus
3.3-V SDRAM
3.3-V Peripheral
3.3-V ROM
GP Bus
SDRAM
Bus
3.3-V ROM
3.3-V SDRAM
3.3-V ROM
3.3-V ROM
GP Bus
SDRAM
Bus
5-V PeripheralBuffer
ROMBUFOE
GPDBUFOE
Élan™SC520
Microcontroller
Élan™SC520
Microcontroller
Élan™SC520
Microcontroller
Notes:
Both the GP bus and the SDRAM bus can be operated at either 5 V or 3.3 V.