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IDT72T3645/55/65/75/85/95/105/115/125 2.5V TeraSync
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™ 36-BIT FIFO
1K x 36, 2K x 36, 4K x 36, 8K x 36, 16K x 36, 32K x 36, 64K x 36, 128K x 36 and 256K x 36
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
DESCRIPTION:
The IDT72T3645/72T3655/72T3665/72T3675/72T3685/72T3695/
72T36105/72T36115/72T36125 are exceptionally deep, extrememly high
speed, CMOS First-In-First-Out (FIFO) memories with clocked read and write
controls and a flexible Bus-Matching x36/x18/x9 data flow. These FIFOs offer
several key user benefits:
• Flexible x36/x18/x9 Bus-Matching on both read and write ports
• A user selectable MARK location for retransmit
• User selectable I/O structure for HSTL or LVTTL
• Asynchronous/Synchronous translation on the read or write ports
• The first word data latency period, from the time the first word is written to an
empty FIFO to the time it can be read, is fixed and short.
• High density offerings up to 9 Mbit
Bus-Matching TeraSync FIFOs are particularly appropriate for network,
video, telecommunications, data communications and other applications that
need to buffer large amounts of data and match busses of unequal sizes.
Each FIFO has a data input port (Dn) and a data output port (Qn), both of
which can assume either a 36-bit, 18-bit or a 9-bit width as determined by the
state of external control pins Input Width (IW), Output Width (OW), and Bus-
Matching (BM) pin during the Master Reset cycle.
The input port can be selected as either a Synchronous (clocked) interface,
or Asynchronous interface. During Synchronous operation the input port is
controlled by a Write Clock (WCLK) input and a Write Enable (WEN) input. Data
present on the Dn data inputs is written into the FIFO on every rising edge of
WCLK when WEN is asserted. During Asynchronous operation only the WR
input is used to write data into the FIFO. Data is written on a rising edge of WR,
the WEN input should be tied to its active state, (LOW).
The output port can be selected as either a Synchronous (clocked) interface,
or Asynchronous interface. During Synchronous operation the output port is
controlled by a Read Clock (RCLK) input and Read Enable (REN) input. Data
is read from the FIFO on every rising edge of RCLK when REN is asserted.
During Asynchronous operation only the RD input is used to read data from the
FIFO. Data is read on a rising edge of RD, the REN input should be tied to its
active state, LOW. When Asynchronous operation is selected on the output port
the FIFO must be configured for Standard IDT mode, also the RCS should be
tied LOW and the OE input used to provide three-state control of the outputs, Qn.
The output port can be selected for either 2.5V LVTTL or HSTL operation,
this operation is selected by the state of the RHSTL input during a master reset.
An Output Enable (OE) input is provided for three-state control of the outputs.
A Read Chip Select (RCS) input is also provided, the RCS input is synchronized
to the read clock, and also provides three-state control of the Qn data outputs.
When RCS is disabled, the data outputs will be high impedance. During
Asynchronous operation of the output port, RCS should be enabled, held LOW.
Echo Read Enable, EREN and Echo Read Clock, ERCLK outputs are
provided. These are outputs from the read port of the FIFO that are required
for high speed data communication, to provide tighter synchronization between
the data being transmitted from the Qn outputs and the data being received by
the input device. Data read from the read port is available on the output bus with
respect to EREN and ERCLK, this is very useful when data is being read at
high speed. The ERCLK and EREN outputs are non-functional when the Read
port is setup for Asynchronous mode.
The frequencies of both the RCLK and the WCLK signals may vary from 0
to fMAX with complete independence. There are no restrictions on the frequency
of the one clock input with respect to the other.
There are two possible timing modes of operation with these devices: IDT
Standard mode and First Word Fall Through (FWFT) mode.
In IDT Standard mode, the first word written to an empty FIFO will not appear
on the data output lines unless a specific read operation is performed. A read
operation, which consists of activating REN and enabling a rising RCLK edge,
will shift the word from internal memory to the data output lines.
In FWFT mode, the first word written to an empty FIFO is clocked directly
to the data output lines after three transitions of the RCLK signal. A REN does
not have to be asserted for accessing the first word. However, subsequent
words written to the FIFO do require a LOW on REN for access. The state of
the FWFT/SI input during Master Reset determines the timing mode in use.
For applications requiring more data storage capacity than a single FIFO
can provide, the FWFT timing mode permits depth expansion by chaining FIFOs
in series (i.e. the data outputs of one FIFO are connected to the corresponding
data inputs of the next). No external logic is required.
These FIFOs have five flag pins, EF/OR (Empty Flag or Output Ready),
FF/IR (Full Flag or Input Ready), HF (Half-full Flag), PAE (Programmable
Almost-Empty flag) and PAF (Programmable Almost-Full flag). The EF and FF
functions are selected in IDT Standard mode. The IR and OR functions are
selected in FWFT mode. HF, PAE and PAF are always available for use,
irrespective of timing mode.
PAE and PAF can be programmed independently to switch at any point in
memory. Programmable offsets determine the flag switching threshold and can
be loaded by two methods: parallel or serial. Eight default offset settings are also
provided, so that PAE can be set to switch at a predefined number of locations
from the empty boundary and the PAF threshold can also be set at similar
predefined values from the full boundary. The default offset values are set during
Master Reset by the state of the FSEL0, FSEL1, and LD pins.
For serial programming, SEN together with LD on each rising edge of
SCLK, are used to load the offset registers via the Serial Input (SI). For parallel
programming, WEN together with LD on each rising edge of WCLK, are used
to load the offset registers via Dn. REN together with LD on each rising edge
of RCLK can be used to read the offsets in parallel from Qn regardless of whether
serial or parallel offset loading has been selected.
During Master Reset (MRS) the following events occur: the read and write
pointers are set to the first location of the FIFO. The FWFT pin selects IDT
Standard mode or FWFT mode.
The Partial Reset (PRS) also sets the read and write pointers to the first
location of the memory. However, the timing mode, programmable flag
programming method, and default or programmed offset settings existing before
Partial Reset remain unchanged. The flags are updated according to the timing
mode and offsets in effect. PRS is useful for resetting a device in mid-operation,
when reprogramming programmable flags would be undesirable.
It is also possible to select the timing mode of the PAE (Programmable Almost-
Empty flag) and PAF (Programmable Almost-Full flag) outputs. The timing
modes can be set to be either asynchronous or synchronous for the PAE and
PAF flags.
If asynchronous PAE/PAF configuration is selected, the PAE is asserted
LOW on the LOW-to-HIGH transition of RCLK. PAE is reset to HIGH on the LOW-
to-HIGH transition of WCLK. Similarly, the PAF is asserted LOW on the LOW-
to-HIGH transition of WCLK and PAF is reset to HIGH on the LOW-to-HIGH
transition of RCLK.
If synchronous PAE/PAF configuration is selected , the PAE is asserted and
updated on the rising edge of RCLK only and not WCLK. Similarly, PAF is
asserted and updated on the rising edge of WCLK only and not RCLK. The mode
desired is configured during MasterReset by the state of the Programmable Flag
Mode (PFM) pin.
