Expansion device configuration system having two configuration m

Details Expansion device configuration system having two configuration m Expansion device configuration system having two configuration m

1994-04-25

1996-05-14

An, Meng-Ai

Boots, shoes, and leggings

395500, 3649294, 3649295, 3649752, 364945, 3649292, 364DIG2, G06F 1300, G06F 900

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055176461

ABSTRACT:
A circuit for configuring a Plug and Play expansion card in one of three ways. The first is the standard Plug and Play configuration method, wherein expansion cards go through the isolation process to obtain unique Card Select Numbers (CSN). This method requires the existence of a dedicated serial EEPROM to store the system resource data for the expansion cards. However, when an expansion card is directly mounted onto a system board, it becomes a system board device. This allows the separate serial EEPROM to be removed. To implement, two alternative configuration modes are provided, wherein the expansion card can be configured under main CPU control. In these alternative modes, the configuration data is stored in the main system BIOS ROM. In the first mode, a register in the expansion card is mapped to a fixed ISA I/O address. In the second mode, the register is controlled by a dedicated pin, thus allowing it to be mapped to any ISA I/O address. To determine which configuration mode is used by the expansion card, pullup or pulldown resistors are connected to certain expansion card output pins. A second embodiment is also described wherein a static random access memory (SRAM) is utilized to store the serial identifier and the resource data. In this embodiment, the system BIOS initially writes the serial identifier and resource data into the SRAM. After this is done, a Plug and Play configuration process is invoked, in which the serial identifier is retrieved from the SRAM rather than the serial EEPROM.

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