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The status register is of length 8-bits wide. The processor can only read but not write and it is only selected when CS* is 0, A3-0 is 1000, and IOR* is 0.About the present state of 8257 the information about the status is provided. The five blocks are important others are marked 0 since they are not in use.UD1 = Update in progress0 = Update not in progressTCn1 = TC reached for Channel n (n = 0–3)0 = TC not yet reached for Channel nFig: Interpretation of the contents of the status registerThe read operation of the status register is ... Read More

The processor, in active state writes to the Control register of 8257 to configure its working purpose. To find out the status of 8257, the processor reads status register of the processor. The control register is of length 8-bits which is only read by the processor but not read. It is only selected when CS* is 0, A3-0 is 1000, and IOW* is 0.Intel calls the control register 8257 normally the mode set register by as it sets the mode of operation of 8257.AULD1 = Enable auto load0 = Disable auto loadTCS1 = Stop DMA transfer if TC reached0 = ... Read More

We have four Counters, ranging from CR3-0, which consists of 16 bits each. At the time when the CR becomes access to the processor which is 16-bits wide, the Least Significant and the Most Significant Byte of the register are accessed in an alternate manner, which starts with the Least Significant Byte. Also, the M/L* flip-flop helps here. The information about the number of bytes which are to be transferred using DMA are contained in the Counter Registers, which is decremented by 1 for every byte in the DMA data transfer. When the Counter Register becomes 0, the last DMA ... Read More

Every DMA channel consists an address register and a count register. These registers are 16-bits wide in length. In each 16 bits there are four ARs marked as AR3-0. Apart from four CRs there are control and status registers also. They are separate 8-bit registers, but have the same address. Here the processor can only write in the control register but we can read in the status register. Fig. Programmer's view at a glance of Intel 8257.We can select any one of the above registers by the address of the four pins marked as A3-0 of 8257. The processor used here writes to ... Read More

We know from the study of the description of 8257 that it consists of 40 pins and the condition when it works in Slave Mode and Master mode. From the microprocessor point of view, the I/O port is a chip which is used exclusively for DMA control application and is not used for interfacing I/O devices for the purpose of data transfer with the processor. This chip is only used to control the DMA data transfer for four I/O ports. For every I/O port there exists a corresponding DMA channel. This chip provides all the features which are needed for ... Read More

As per DIP package Intel 8257 DMA controller chip is a 40-pin programmable Integrated Circuit. The pin diagrams of physical and functional are indicated below. The DMA controller chip 8257 works in two modes namely slave mode and master mode. Likely the processor also works in two modes namely active mode and HOLD mode. The processor normally works in active mode where the processor works as the master of the computer system. The processor goes to the HOLD state only when DMA transfer is required and it gives control to the system bus.When the processor is programming 8257 it is ... Read More

The microcomputer system basically consists of three blocksThe microprocessorThe memories of microprocessor like EPROM and RAM andThe I/O ports by which they are connected.The possible data transfers are indicated below.Between the memory and microprocessor data transfer occurs by using the LDA and STA instructions.Between microprocessor and I/O ports also data transfer occurs by the help of two instructions IN and OUT.Through DMA data transfer, data is transferred between the Input Output ports and the memory.If the data transfer which is used for reading from the memory location is 3456H and then writing to output port number is 50H which takes ... Read More

The microcomputer system basically consists of three blocksThe microprocessorThe memories of microprocessor like EPROM and RAMThe I/O ports by which they are connected.The possible data transfers are indicated below.Between the memory and microprocessor data transfer occurs by using the LDA and STA instructions.Between microprocessor and I/O ports also data transfer occurs by the help of two instructions IN and OUT.Through DMA data transfer, data is transferred between the Input Output ports and the memory.Fig: The figure shows possible ways of data transfers in a microcomputer system.For performing the data transfer either between the microprocessor and memory or between I/O ports ... Read More

As per DIP package Intel 8257 DMA controller chip is a 40-pin programmable Integrated Circuit. The pin diagrams of physical and functional are indicated below. The DMA controller chip 8257 works in two modes namely −Slave Mode andMaster Mode.Likely the processor also works in two modes namely active mode and HOLD mode. The processor normally works in active mode where the processor works as the master of the computer system. The processor goes to the HOLD state only when DMA transfer is required and it gives control to the system bus.When the processor is programming 8257 it is in slave ... Read More

We have assumed that the processor that the processor used in this microcomputer system is 8085, and the slave which is connected to the input IR4 of Master 8259. The address of the port of 8259 is dependent on the chip and the circuit used. Using ICWs and OCWs the Master 8259 and Slave 8259 have to be programmed individually. But the interesting thing is that the two ICWs, ICW1 and ICW2 have the same meaning distinguishingly Master or Slave. So the discussion about the two ICWs, ICW1, and ICW2 is of no use. So we have not done any ... Read More