| 摘要 |
The extension of the size of memory, through the use of page signals in addressing such memory in previous inventions, made no provision for the possibility that a plurality of direct storage access channels which can operate simultaneously would be directed to the same extended addressing region of such storage. In order to provide for such access by the channels, this invention is directed to a computing system storage addressing apparatus (20, 40) which extends the addressing capability of an address bus (12) to enable direct storage (memory) storage access (DMA) channels (32, 33, 34 and 35), to operate simultaneously in the same or different storage pages. The computing system includes a processor (10), a plurality of storage devices (16), a data bus (14) and an address bus (12) interconnecting the processor and the storage devices, a DMA device (20) controls connection of the plurality of DMA channels to the address bus and data bus, a plurality of address registers (40) store page address signals loaded from the processor, and the address bus page address signals from an address register corresponding to a currently active DMA channel are gated to the address bus. |
