This page’s documentation is not complete and is based off of preliminary testing. There may be errors in the documentation or the naming conventions may not be completely agreed upon.
The bus state controller is an essential component of a SuperH CPU. The BSC is tasked with mapping physical memory addresses to external memory devices. The term physical address refers to a 29-bit address that the BSC translates to physical storage. The fx-CG10/20 have an external flash chip and DRAM chip. The BSC translates addresses into the address space of the chips and operates the chip select pins.
Areas #
The BSC has 2 modes of operation that change how the addresses are broken up to the various external storages. The table below lists the areas and if the area is in use by a physical chip. The areas that are unused seem to return repeating groups of 4 64-bit numbers with some variation on physical hardware. The Prizm emulator has all unused areas set to 0 for all bytes.
| Address | Area | Memory Device | Size | Used | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 0000 to03FF FFFF | Area 0 | Normal memory, burst rom, SRAM | 64MB | Yes, 32MB | Due to unused address bits, the flash is repeated at 0200 0000 to 03FF FFFF |
| 0400 0000 to07FF FFFF | Area 1 | Internal IO registers | 64MB | No | |
| 0800 0000 to0BFF FFFF | Area 2 | DRAM | 64MB | Yes, 2MB | Due to unused address bits, the RAM is repeated every 2MB. |
| 0C00 0000 to0FFF FFFF | Area 3 | DRAM | 64MB | No | |
| 1000 0000 to13FF FFFF | Area 4 | DRAM or normal memory, SRAM, burst ROM | 64MB | No | |
| 1400 0000 to13FF FFFF | Area 5A | DRAM or normal memory | 32MB | No | |
| 1600 0000 to17FF FFFF | Area 5B | DRAM or normal memory, SRAM | 32MB | No | |
| 1800 0000 to19FF FFFF | Area 6A | Normal memory | 32MB | No | |
| 1A00 0000 to1BFF FFFF | Area 6B | Normal memory, SRAM | 32MB | No | |
| 1C00 0000 to1FFF FFFF | Area 7 | Reserved | 64MB | No | |